ARTICLE 19

Leading up to the 10 October, 2012 appeal, tell the Russian authorities to release Russian punk band Pussy Riot members who were found guilty of “hooliganism,” and sentenced to two years in jail.

The Burmese government’s announcement that, after decades of harsh censorship, it is lifting pre-publication censorship was greeted with a mixture of jubilation, shock and scepticism.

While the draft bill positively enshrines a number of progressive principles on the right of access to information, areas of concern remain, says ARTICLE 19.

Three members of the punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in jail for “hooliganism”, in a case IFEX members say is a blow to free expression in Russia.

Temesgen Desalegn learned of his charges on 10 August through a radio broadcast without being summoned to Court.

Volodymyr Honcharenko’s colleagues and family are convinced there is a relationship between the brutal attack that led to his death and his environmental activism in Ukraine.

As Tunisia’s Constituent Assembly prepares to review a draft Constitution, the IFEX-TMG expresses its concern about a draft proposal to regulate the media, as well as prison sentences for religious reasons.

ARTICLE 19 calls on the Italian Parliament to repeal criminal defamation legislation following the conviction of journalist Orfeo Donatini and former newspaper director Tiziano Marson.