LEGAL ANALYSIS
Myanmar: Law on assembly and procession inconsistent with human rights
The Decree on the Right to Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful
Procession is one of the first laws governing civil and political rights
to be adopted since the election of a quasi-civilian government in
November 2010. ARTICLE 19’s analysis of the law launched today finds the
law to be inconsistent with the right to freedom of expression and the
right to assembly. Read more >
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ - ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာစုေ၀းခြင့္ႏွင့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာစီတန္းလွည့္လည္ခြင့္ဆိုင္ရာ နည္းဥပေဒမ်ား
ျပည္ေထာင္စုျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေတာ္အစိုးရမွ ဇူလိုင္လ ၅ ရက္ ၂၀၁၂ တြင္
ျပဌာန္းခဲ့သည့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာစုေ၀းခြင့္ႏွင့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ
စီတန္းလွည့္လည္ခြင့္ဆိုင္ရာ ဥပေဒကို အာတီကယ္ ၁၉ မွ ဇူလိုင္လတြင္
ဆန္းစစ္ေလ့လာခဲ့သည္။ Read in Burmese >
STATEMENT
ARTICLE 19: Response to publication of Charlie Hebdo cartoons and distribution of Innocence of Muslims video
The publication on 19 September 2012 by the French satirical weekly
magazine, Charlie Hebdo of a set of cartoons depicting the Prophet
Mohammed and the recent distribution of an older American video newly
dubbed into Arabic, Innocence of Muslims, both sparked violent protests
and discussions as to whether they should be prohibited.
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PRESS RELEASE
Ukraine: No justice for Georgiy Gongadze twelve years on
Impunity for killings and attacks on journalists prevail in Ukraine. 16
September marked the twelfth anniversary of the killing of investigative
journalist Georgiy Gongadze, yet the masterminds behind his killing
have still not been brought to justice. Unresolved cases also include
Ihor Aleksandrov a journalist killed in 2001 Vasyl Klymentyev a
journalist disappeared in 2010, and VolodymyrHoncharenko an ecologist
killed in 2012.
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STATEMENT
Russia: Authorities must respect freedom of expression during third March of the Millions day rally
Ahead of the third March of the Millions rally on 15 September, ARTICLE
19 expresses its concern about the extent to which civil rights and
freedoms in Russia have been eroded since Vladimir Putin’s re-election
to the Presidency.
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Isn’t it time for the government to let the media regulate itself?
For the past few years now, the media fraternity has taken significant
efforts to establish mechanisms of self-regulation, resulting in the
establishment of the Independent Media Council of Uganda (IMCU),
launched in 2009 by veteran journalist and former premier Kintu
Musoke.
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Egyptian television broadcast regulatory framework: Challenges and opportunities
The broadcast media in Egypt has long been considered the government’s
mouthpiece reflecting and prioritising the president's activities while
ignoring other important topics. This paper observes that although Egypt
has been defined as a transitional democracy, following the January 25
revolution, the broadcast media remains under the government’s control.
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