Iran: Re-elected administration must make rhetoric reality for free expression online
25 May 2017
Following his re-election for a second term in Iran’s 19 May Presidential elections, ARTICLE 19 urges President Hassan Rouhani to take…
Read in fullMexico: End impunity for attacks on the press after six killed this year
18 May 2017
This week, on 15 May 2017, Mexican journalist Jesús Javier Valdez Cárdenas, director and founder of the weekly newspaper Ríodoce…
Read in fullUkraine: Blocking of Russian social media sites is a severe form of censorship
16 May 2017
ARTICLE 19 condemns the decision by Ukrainian President Poroshenko to block access to some of Russia’s largest internet companies and social…
Read in fullTightening the Net: Online Freedoms in Iran Ahead of the 2017 Presidential Elections
11 May 2017
This report is the first in a series of quarterly briefings, following on from ARTICLE 19's Tightening the Net series.In this report, ARTICLE…
Read in fullIndonesia: Overturn blasphemy conviction of Jakarta Governor and repeal law
11 May 2017
ARTICLE 19 condemns the criminal conviction for “blasphemy” of Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (also known as Ahok), and…
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Germany: Draft Bill on Social Networks raises serious free expression concerns
26 Apr 2017
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Malaysia: Communications and Multimedia Act
24 Mar 2017
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Myanmar: Telecommunications Law
09 Mar 2017
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24 May 2017
Brazilian civil society organizations are today attending…
Uganda: Media Council bans screening of film for “glorifying homosexuality”
23 May 2017
ARTICLE 19 is concerned by the recent censorship of…
United States: Condemn attacks on peaceful protesters by Turkish security forces
23 May 2017
Members of President Erdogan's private security detail…
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Brazil: Five years of the Access to Information Law
22 May 2017
ARTICLE 19 this week launched the report "Five years…
Malaysia: Drop charges against independent news portal Malaysiakini
18 May 2017
ARTICLE 19 condemns charges against the CEO and Editor-in-Chief…
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Kazakhstan: Stabbing of journalist must be immediately investigated
15 May 2017
On 14 May, Ramazan Yesergepov, chairman of Journalists…
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Uganda: Academic and activist Stella Nyanzi released on bail for free speech charges
11 May 2017
ARTICLE 19 welcomes the news that after 33 days in…
The Africa Peer Review Mechanism: Country Review Reports for Kenya, Djibouti, Senegal, and Chad finalized.
09 May 2017
ARTICLE 19 welcomes the finalization of the consideration…
UK: Whistleblowers and journalists face prison for revealing information that could be obtained under FOI
08 May 2017
New proposals by the UK Law Commission to reform the…
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Thailand: Release six detained under repressive lèse majesté laws
08 May 2017
ARTICLE 19 condemns the detentions of human rights…
Malaysia: Social Media Users Must Not Be Co-Opted to Censor Online Dissent
08 May 2017
ARTICLE 19 is concerned that a new “advisory…
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Azerbaijan: Free Journalist Mehman Huseynov
03 May 2017
As World Press Freedom Day is celebrated across the…
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TUNISIA: 25 NGOs raise alarm as government backslides on freedom of expression and information
02 May 2017
On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day on 3 May…
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