Every year, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) Film Festival screens in more than 20 cities and selects approximately 40 films featuring human rights activists’ stories. This year, “Black Code,” a documentary featuring the founder of Citizen Lab Ron Deibert and his colleagues has been chosen for screening. The Citizen Lab researchers use evidence-based research to…
Khadija Ismayilova (Image: Washington Post)On February 21, 2017, former Azerbaijani political prisoner and journalist Khadija Ismayilova reported that Azerbaijani civil society activists were harassed, blackmailed and arrested days before Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced that his wife would be the country’s new vice president. Ismayilova said the arrests are connected to the government’s ongoing efforts…
On February 2, 2017, Citizen Lab published the “Nile Phish Report: Large-Scale Phishing Campaign Targeting Egyptian Civil Society.” The report details the several-month campaign against Egyptian activists who received various “phishing” emails including one that claimed to be a copy of an arrest warrant for Azza Soliman, the founder of the Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal…
On January 16, 2017, leading members of Azerbaijani civil society issued a letter to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to conduct an independent investigation into corruption allegations against several of its Members. The letter is in response to an investigation by a Milan public prosecutor of former Vice President of PACE,…