UPDATE
#WhyProtest? Kicking off the conversation
To coincide with hundreds of activists gathering in Bogotá for International Civil Society Week, ARTICLE 19 and partners launched a social media Thunderclap to talk about the right to protest. Read more >
STATEMENT
Tunisia: Human rights and counter-terrorism
Countering terrorism and respecting human rights are two sides of the same coin, as 46 national and international human rights organisations have stated, in an open letter titled “No to Terrorism, Yes to Human Rights.”
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عربيSTATEMENT
Turkey: ‘Charlie Hebdo’ prison sentences for two journalists violate freedom of expression
ARTICLE 19 condemns the two-year prison sentences given to Cumhuriyet journalists Ceyda Karan and Hikmet Çetinkaya, for re-publishing the Charlie Hebdo 'survivor’s edition' cover image. The convictions for “inciting hate and enmity”, and increased penalties due to the offence being committed through the media, violate international human rights law.
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Bangladesh: murder of LGBT magazine editor must be condemned and perpetrators brought to justice
Xulhaz Mannan, editor of Roopbaan, the country’s first LGBT magazine, has been murdered in the Kalabagan area of Dhaka, Bangladesh. A friend and colleague of Mannan, Tanay Mojumdar, was also killed in the attack, and a third person was injured.
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