"Immediately repeal emergency regulation that threatens online freedoms", 3 August 2021.

The undersigned organizations are concerned that the Regulation seeks to impose un-necessary, disproportionate and arbitrary restrictions in violation of the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas...

Regulation No. 29... [prohibits] the release, distribution or dissemination of texts that may “instigate fear” or are “intended to distort information to mislead understanding of the emergency situation to the extent of affecting the security of state or public order or good morals of the people.” Regulation No. 29 additionally grants government authorities new enforcement powers...

This Regulation is incompatible with... the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights... It also undermines the right to health... which obligates States to ensure access to health-related information...

If communications targeted by the Regulation are made available online, the National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission (NBTC) is required to inform internet service providers (ISPs) to identify the IP addresses associated with the communications and immediately suspend services to those addresses. The ISPs are then required to report the details of their findings...

The Regulation requires that the NBTC take action against ISPs who fail to comply with relevant orders, which will be deemed a violation of their operating licenses...