COUNTRY REPORT
Azerbaijan: Council of Europe must speak up against crackdown on human rights defenders
Azerbaijan should refrain from using spurious criminal charges to put its critics behind bars, according to a new report by ARTICLE 19,Azerbaijan: When the truth becomes a lie, launched at the Council of Europe, as part of the International Partnership Group on Azerbaijan.
PRESS RELEASE
ECHR essential for protecting free speech in UK
Responding to the UK Conservative Party's plans for undermining the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Thomas Hughes Executive Director of ARTICLE 19, said: "The European Court of Human Rights has been crucial in protecting the right to freedom of expression in the UK."
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UPDATE
What’s going on in Myanmar?
With 13 months remaining before general elections in Myanmar, defending freedom of expression and information is more critical than ever. Like all transitional processes, it's a complex, contradictory and confusing situation.
Here’s a snapshot of what ARTICLE 19’s office in Yangon has been seeing on government engagement and judicial change.
PRESS RELEASE
People of Hong Kong have a right to be heard
ARTICLE 19 is calling for the Hong Kong authorities to uphold the rights to free expression and peaceful assembly during the growing pro-democracy protests.
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Russia: ARTICLE 19 welcomes reopening of investigation into murder of journalist Akhmednabiyev
ARTICLE 19 welcomes the Russian authorities’ decision to reopen the investigation into the murder of Dagestani journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev. The investigation, launched after the journalist’s shooting in July 2013, was suspended in the summer of 2014.
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Brazil: Court of Justice rules journalist’s blindness from rubber bullet ‘own fault’
ARTICLE 19 condemns the decision of the Court of Justice of the State of São Paulo to reverse the earlier decision to award compensation to Brazilian photographer Alexandro Wagner Oliveira da Silveira, known as Alex Silva.
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PRESS RELEASE
Morocco: ARTICLE 19 urges government to improve draft Right to Information Act
ARTICLE 19 has reviewed the new Moroccan Draft Law No 31.13 on the Right of Access to Information and finds that it fails to adequately recognise the right to information and threatens free expression.
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REPORT
Senegal: ARTICLE 19 publishes report on access to information in the fight against Fistula
On Right to Know Day, September 28th, ARTICLE 19 published a study on access to information in the fight against obstetric fistula in Tambacounda, South eastern region of Senegal.
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BLOG
Iran’s Presidential Template
In an Interview with CCN’s Christian Amanpour, President Rouhani gave a short and bizarre response to a question in regards to imprisoned journalists in Iran’s jails. After promising to release political prisoners and journalists in his election campaign, Rouhani’s tone has changed...
Read more >GUEST BLOGAttacks against journalists violate the rights to freedom of expression and information for all people
At a
side event organised by ARTICLE 19 during the 27th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, I had the opportunity to talk about the issue of impunity for media killings in my country. Since democracy was restored to the Philipines in 1986, there have been 145 journalists killed in the country because of their work. Of those 145, there have been only 14 convictions, with none bringing the actual masterminds to justice.
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