France, May 27 -- French medical NGO Medecins du Monde (MdM) says two of its field programmes were removed from the social media platform, while campaigners tracking online restrictions report a sharp rise in complaints this year.

The Jasmine account, an MdM programme aimed at fighting violence against sex workers, was disabled by Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, on 5 May.

"We were suspended without any kind of notification," Sarah-Marie Maffesoli, a sex work advocacy officer at the organisation, told RFI.

The Jasmine account had already been briefly suspended in late March before being restored. After the account was suspended again, MdM appealed two days later. Meta rejected the appeal and permanently disabled the ...