ARTICLE 19

Civil society groups argue that it’s time for a shift in the discourse toward a human-centred policy implemented in accordance with international human rights standards.

While talk of increased access is welcome, content within the ‘National Internet’ would be blocked or filtered according to political, cultural, or religious criteria, and its users’ activity would be monitored.

Dündar, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, and Gül, the newspaper’s Ankara representative, face accusations of aiding a terrorist organisation, espionage and disclosure of classified documents for reports in Cumhuriyet claiming that Turkey’s intelligence agency secretly armed Islamist rebel groups in Syria.

The release of these political prisoners is a step in the right direction, say the Sport for Rights Coalition, but dozens of others remain in Azerbaijani jails.

Are the escalating violence, deteriorating human rights climate and shocking rates of impunity enough to wake people up to the current reality in Honduras?

A trial has started in Colombia which has no precedent anywhere in the world. Journalist Claudia Julieta Duque will testify in the trial against three members of the now-disbanded Administrative Department of Security (DAS), who are accused of having tortured her psychologically.

Free expression organisations join the Media Foundation for West Africa in calling on African regional body to pressure The Gambia to release journalist Alhagie Abdoulie Ceesay.

On Saturday 20 February, the Egyptian author Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison for ‘violating public modesty’ with the content of his novel, “Using Life.”