ARTICLE 19

Based in Nairobi for the past five years, British correspondent Jerome Starkey was detained without explanation at Nairobi airport on his return from a visit to the United Kingdom in December 2016 and was put on a flight back to London the next day.

A new ideological tech initiative aims to keep Iranian citizens isolated from the rest of the world. Will it work?

In his last week in office, President Obama commuted the 35-year sentence of military whistleblower Chelsea Manning, who will be released in 2017.

Unidentified assailants attacked the home of Mexican journalist Gabriel Valencia Juárez at about 10:15 p.m. on December 31, 2016. Valencia was only a meter from where one of the 9mm caliber bullets struck a piece of furniture.

The arrest on Tuesday of Maxence Melo, founder and editor of Jamii Forum, the popular Tanzanian website, has raised serious concerns among the human rights community in the region.

A new bill currently before the Brazilian Congress will create far greater flexibility regarding existing rules for environmental permits. The new bill would reduce social participation and weaken access to public information.

ARTICLE 19 reviews whether blocking and filtering can ever be compatible with international human rights standards, and offers a series of recommendations which the courts or independent adjudicatory bodies should take into consideration when reviewing blocking requests.

ARTICLE 19 reviews whether blocking and filtering can ever be compatible with international human rights standards, and offers a series of recommendations which the courts or independent adjudicatory bodies should take into consideration when reviewing blocking requests.