ARTICLE 19

People are encouraged to join around 200 organisations supporting the adoption of 13 basic principles applying existing human rights law to modern digital surveillance.

Sign the petition to tell Europe’s leaders to take action to stop the US, UK and other governments from carrying out mass surveillance.

ARTICLE 19 has submitted a document to the European Court of Human Rights stating that general prohibitions on the full-face veil are not in line with international standards on the right to freedom of expression or freedom of religion.

Nineteen human rights organisations have written to U.S. President Barack Obama to raise the issue of the detention of human rights defender and blogger Mr Le Quoc Quan when President Truong Tan Sang of Vietnam meets Obama on 25 July 2013.

In its Artist Alert report for June 2013, ARTICLE 19 highlights cases from Kenya, Argentina, the U.S. and Australia among others.

The restrictions imposed on Internet usage in Tunisia have certainly gone backwards. Nevertheless, the repressive legislative and regulatory system prior to 14 January 2011, put in place by the dictatorship, is still active.

Jaime Delgado, director of news site Periodismo Negro, published out of Baja California, Mexico reported receiving threats related to a video that allegedly shows evidence of a relationship between a politician and a minor.

ARTICLE 19 condemns President Putin’s adoption of a federal ban on “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships”, and the arbitrary arrest of up to 60 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists at a St. Petersburg gay pride demonstration on 29 June 2013.