PRESS RELEASE
Brazil: Court approves ban on development protestor
ARTICLE 19 is disappointed with the decision of a court in Sao Paulo to uphold a ban against a protester that has been campaigning against a property development in the city. The Court of Justice in the State of São Paulo has approved an injunction against the engineer and community activist Ricardo Fraga Oliveira, founder of the Movement for the Other Side of the Wall campaign.Fraga, who is a vocal opponent of a real estate development by the construction firm Mofarrej Vila Mariana SPE Empreendimentos Imobiliários S/A, will not be allowed to demonstrate within a block of the construction work and has had to delete all references to the company from his campaign Facebook page. Read more >
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Tunisia: Programme to protect journalists and human rights defenders launched
ARTICLE 19 is to launch a programme to protect journalists and human rights defenders in Tunisa, following a series of meetings with media workers and civil society groups in the country.
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Kenya: Narrow court interpretation of “citizens” violates international human rights law
ARTICLE 19 welcomes a High Court decision that citizens have a right to access the information held by public and state owned corporations but is highly concerned by the court’s continued narrow interpretation of “citizens” that would prevent NGOs, media organisations, and informal associations from making requests.
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Uganda: Police raids on the media are an attack on free expression
ARTICLE 19 condemns police raids on media houses in Uganda following the publication of a letter that has sparked intense political debate in the country. Police officers forced entry into the offices of newspapers The Monitor and The Red Pepper, suspending their operations - and have taken associated radio stations 93.3 KFM and 90.4 Dembe FM off air. ARTICLE 19 believes the police raids to be part of a politically motivated attack intended to prevent debate about an issue of public importance. ARTICLE 19 also finds that the legal process for the raids has been abused.
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ADVOCACY LETTER
Kosovo: Letter on protection of sources bill
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network and ARTICLE 19 welcome the draft-law on protection of journalist sources, adopted to be sent in its first reading by the Committee on Media of the Assembly of Kosovo, on 19 April 2013. We urge the Assembly to adopt the draft-law, with some amendments, that we propose below.
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Cutting off the Internet?
In
response to questions about the national internet project, which would render access to the World Wide Web impossible, Ali Hakim Javadi, the Head of Information Technology Organisation of Iran said, “This is a rumour started against us by the Western media, which they tend to continuously repeat, in that the national internet project is a means to reduce access to the World Wide Web, but this is not the case at all. We are only after using a national product, with higher safety and security measures.”
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23 Days to Go
Some will tell you that 23 days from now the fate of Iran will be sealed for another 4 years. Some may argue that the president is just a formality figure in Iran, as all (big) decisions are made by the dictator aka the supreme leader. Some may even argue that let’s say the president is not just a puppet and has decision-making powers; but will that be valid if the chosen one is the dictator’s son-in-law, or his distant cousin, or some other nepotistic being that is now approved and short-listed?
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