On September 1, 2016, Venezuelan protesters filled the streets of Caracas, calling upon the government to hold a recall election that would likely oust President Maduro. Dozens of demonstrators, including the journalist Braulio Jatar Alonso who publicized information about the protests, were arrested, further adding to Venezuela’s growing list of political prisoners. However, the opposition’s…
On June 30, 2016, Willie Kimani, a Nairobi human rights lawyer, his client Josephat Mwenda, and taxi driver Joseph Muiruri, were found dead in the Ol-Donyo Sabuk River in Eastern Kenya. Kimani had been representing Mwenda in a case against a police officer who accidentally shot him in the arm in 2015. Since filing criminal…
On July 10, 2016, human rights defender and independent political analyst, Kem Ley, was murdered in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Ley is the founder of the grassroots organization Khmer for Khmer, and was murdered days after speaking with Radio Free Asia about a recent Global Witness report that documented the corruption of the Prime Minister of…
The Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) recently interviewed the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) partner and journalist, Muntathar Nasser, about his role in the recent Panama Papers investigation. Nasser is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Iraqi independent, NED-funded, online daily newspaper, al-Aalem al-Jadid. Nasser’s work in the Panama Papers investigation exposed the business…