Amicus brief on the case of the President of the Intelligence Services versus Alan Rusbridger and Gaith Salim Abd al Ahad.

This is a Memorandum analysing the Information Access Right Draft Law, developed by a group of experts, journalists and academics in Iraq, in late 2009.

Comment on the Draft Law Concerning the Information of Yemen.

Legal analysis on the Iraqi Draft Journalists Protection Law.

This Memorandum analyses amendments to the 1962 Press Law of Lebanon. The amendments suggest changes to a number of domestic media laws, with a view to bringing these laws into line with the latest media development and international standards of freedom of expression.

Memorandum: Freedom of Information draft Law in Yemen offering a critique of draft legislation and suggestions for legal reform.

Memorandum on the Draft Egyptian Broadcast Law, 2008.

Memorandum on the Draft Law on the Right of Access to Information, 2007.

Memorandum analysing the 1965 Broadcasting Authority Law against international standards on freedom of expression and public service broadcasting.

Joint statement from ARTICLE 19 and Amnesty International concerning the proposed amendments to Decree No. 18 of the year 1973 of Public Meetings, Processions and Gatherings.

Article by Toby Mendel, ARTICLE 19 Law Programme Director, and Dr. Ali Khashan on the legal framework for media in Palestine. This article was originally published in This Week in Palestine (www.thisweekinpalestine.com).

Memorandum analysing the legal framework regulating the media in Iran against international standards on freedom of expression.

Report proposing a media policy for Iraq.

Memorandum analysing the Audiovisual Media Law (Provisional Law No. 71, 2002).

Recommendations on how to strengthen the constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression (also available in Arabic through our Arabic publications page).

Comments on the draft Palestinian Law on National Council for Audiovisual.

Memorandum on Jordan's draft law on Guarantee of Access to Information.

Memorandum on Jordan's Protection of State Secrets and Documents Provisional Law No. (50)

Memorandum analysing the draft 'Press and Publication Law' for the year 2004.

Constitutional drafting provisions on freedom of expression based on international and comparative standards (also available in Arabic through our Arabic publications page).

Memorandum analysing two drafts of the Press and Publications Law (also available in Arabic through our Arabic publications page).

Study to inform and stimulate debate around the new Iraqi constitutional provisions on freedom of expression.

Memorandum analysing the proposal for a draft law on access to information, including suggestions for improvement to increase transparency and accountability in public life.

Memorandum on three draft media regulations of Iraq: Code for Media during Elections, Interim Broadcasting Code of Practice, and Interim Media Law.

Memorandum assessing the Afghan Law on Mass Media.

Analysis of and recommendations for current media law, including rights and duties of occupying bodies, as it compares to international standards on freedom of expression and information.

Executive summmary to ARTICLE 19's analysis and recommendations on Iraq's media laws.

Memorandum analysing the Afghan Law of the Press (2002).

Declaration on promoting an independent and pluralistic media in Afghanistan.

Explanatory memorandum on the Afghan Ministry of Information policy direction with regard to the reconstruction and development of media in Afghanistan.

Open letter to Jordan's Parliament regarding its proposed Press and Publications Law.

Memorandum on the the 1995 Press Law of the Palestinian National Authority.

Memorandum on Jordan's proposed 1998 Press and Publications Law.

Memorandum analysing the restrictions on press freedom present in the proposed Organic Law on Information.