Decision to make journalist responsible for hundreds of thousands of pounds in legal costs sets ‘chilling precedent for UK journalism’

Home secretary to decide whether WikiLeaks founder will be extradited to US on espionage charges

Authorities must face justice for the execution of Mohammad Mehdi Karrami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini as nationwide protests continue in Iran.

Julian Assange

Freedom of expression organisation ARTICLE 19 has urged the UK courts not to extradite Wikileaks founder and publisher to the US, where he faces charges related to his work with whistleblower Chelsea...

Amnesty International and ARTICLE 19 say Decree may confer excessive powers to the Government to intervene, suspend or control electronic communication networks and services on grounds of national...

A UK court has approved the extradition of whistleblower Julian Assange, and rights groups have called for the ruling to be rejected.

ARTICLE 19 is monitoring the events currently unfolding in Iran with great concern, where widespread protests which erupted on 15 November 2019 have led to the reported deaths of at least 106 people...

Ad-hoc tribunal of legal experts and supporters pressures US administration to drop ‘attack on press freedom’

Ahead of the trial of Julian Assange at the high court in London on 27 October, ARTICLE 19 reiterates its calls for the founder of journalist and founder of Wikileaks not to be extradited. If the...

The high court in London has ruled that Wikileaks founder and journalists Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States, overturning a judgment earlier this year.

Since 11 April 2019, software developer, cybersecurity expert and digital rights activist Ola Bini, a Swedish national living for the past six years in Ecuador on a legal permit, has been illegitim...

Cyberexperts say Iran has been secretly implementing a widely criticized draft bill that would tighten state control over the Internet and give control of the country’s Internet gateways to the armed...

WhatsApp and messaging apps unite to urge the UK government to rethink the Online Safety Bill.

The UK Home Secretary's decision to extradite journalist and whistleblower Julian Assange to the US will erode media freedom.

High-stakes election in Turkey amid concern that the government will exert considerable control on the Internet to undermine the outcome.

A group of international organisations have called for close scrutiny as the public inquiry into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia begins on 6 December, 2019. ARTICLE 19’s Head of Europe...

Instead of discussing the merits of the reported stories, bots are attacking the messenger.

In today’s world, dominant tech companies hold a considerable degree of control over what their users see or hear on a daily basis. Current practices of content moderation on social media offer very...

Today, in response to the unfolding human rights crisis in Afghanistan, the UN Human Rights Council convened its 31st Special Session, during which the ICJ and ARTICLE 19 called on Member States to...

The freedoms of expression, information, assembly, and association are being persistently eroded by those in power, leaving no illusions of democracy in Hong Kong.

ARTICLE 19 is honoured to have our human rights work recognised by the prestigious Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation annual award for human rights.

As coronavirus spreads in Iran, US sanctions bar Iranians from using a Johns Hopkins map to track the virus

Today, at the Global Conference for Media Freedom in London, the four special rapporteurs on freedom of expression have released their 20th anniversary Joint Declaration on Challenges to Freedom of...

The author, 75, has suffered years of Islamist death threats since writing The Satanic Verses.