Julie Owono, a digital rights advocate and Executive Director of Internet Sans Frontières from Cameroon; Maina Kiai, a human rights activist and Director of Human Rights Watch’s Global Alliances and Partnerships programme from Kenya; and Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei, a human rights lawyer and Programme Manager at the Open Society Initiative for West Africa from Senegal, Ghana and South Africa, have been appointed as Board Members to the newly created Oversight Board.
Browsing: Freedom of Expression
A popular Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has designed a “Freedom of Expression” medallion in collaboration with Foundrae.
Meanwhile, human rights activists denounced such tax as another attempt by President Yoweri Museveni to stifle freedom of expression and quash dissent to his 32-year-rule.