ARTICLE 19

An international mission comprised of 17 international organizations underscores its concern regarding the lack of guarantees offered by the Mexican state to solve the country’s grave freedom of expression crisis and the state’s failure to recognize the seriousness of the problem.

Altan, Ilıcak and others are being retried on bogus terrorism charges. The presiding judge is the same one who oversaw their first trial, which the Bar Human Rights Committee said “gave the appearance of a show trial”.

In an ongoing crackdown on freedom of expression, Algerian authorities have arrested over one hundred protesters and blocked Internet and social media sites.

Following a court decision to continue the detention of civil society leader Osman Kavala, IFEX members and other rights groups call for the case against all 16 defendants to be dropped and for Kavala and human rights defender Yiğit Aksakoğlu to be compensated for the time they have spent in prison.

The Prime Minister of Malta has been given a deadline of 26 September 2019 by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to establish an independent and effective public inquiry into whether Daphne Caruana Galizia’s life could have been saved.

States must call for, among other things, a UN workshop and OHCHR report on the human rights impacts of artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on discrimination and bias.

The conviction of filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi on 29 August 2019 is further evidence of the grave threats faced by those who criticise the Myanmar military, said ARTICLE 19.

ARTICLE 19 calls on the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission to end programs involving the public in mass surveillance initiatives.