ARTICLE 19

This year’s Internet Governance Forum is taking place in Poland. Topics under discussion include: platform governance, connectivity, technology and democracy.

Journalist Ewa Siedlecka was convicted of criminal defamation in a case brought by two judges acting in a private capacity. Media Freedom Rapid Response partners fear that this verdict could pave the way for a wider criminalisation of expressing an opinion based on information present in the public space.

Six individuals who joined a protest in November 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand were charged with sedition and insulting the monarchy.

If the connection between the climate crisis, free expression, access to information, accountability and human rights wasn’t already clear, COP26 made it so.

Thirty civil society groups have sent a letter to the South Korean government expressing concern over a legislative proposal that would impose the world’s first law mandating paid prioritization, a move that risks eroding net neutrality in contravention of international standards regarding access to the internet.

ARTICLE 19 calls on the Algerian authorities to put an immediate end to the continuous flow of violations against journalists and the media, and to reverse unconstitutional practices restricting free expression.

ARTICLE 19 highlights its concerns regarding Indonesia’s Ministerial Regulation 5, which governs the functioning of private electronic systems operators.

ARTICLE 19, Access Now, IFEX, International Media Support and PEN America’s full statement during the interactive dialogue on the interim oral update of OHCHR on the situation of human rights in Belarus at the 48th Session of the Human Rights Council.