ARTICLE 19

“By its very nature, propaganda for war is a freedom of expression issue. The concept overlaps with other aspects of freedom of expression, including incitement to violence and other freedom of expression restrictions under international human rights law.”

The Committee of Experts on Media, the body set up to implement the recommendations of the Public Inquiry into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, submitted their report, which includes an analysis of anti-SLAPP legislation, to the Prime Minister in July.

Giorgos Papachristos was assaulted by a businessman about whom he had written critically. Kostas Vaxevanis was threatened – and his mother-in-law assaulted – by a man who complained about the journalist’s work.

ARTICLE 19 said that the bookstore raid is not the first time this year that authorities have misused the law to infringe on freedom of expression or violate the principle of non-discrimination.

Concerns mount over use of new Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition technology to target women.

Contrary to recent pronouncements that “political correctness” is to blame for the UK’s declining state of free expression, it’s mainly driven by the government’s attempts to silence dissent.

Critical measures taken in the past two years continue to threaten a fragile civic space.

As London hosts the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit this week, ARTICLE 19 releases a new briefing assessing the progress made towards meeting the SDG on freedom of expression and access to information.