Georgia: With TV Station Takeover, Is Free Speech at Stake?
Journalists at Georgia’s last major opposition broadcasting company are digging in and refusing to comply with a court order altering the outlet’s ownership structure. Doing…
Security, Creativity, Tolerance and Their Co-Existence: The New European Agenda on Freedom of Artistic Expression
Executive Summary The protection and promotion of freedom of artistic expression is crucial to both ensure that artists can express themselves freely through various artforms…
Russia: Content Analysis Serves as a Tool of Biased Courts
Magomednabi Magomedov, a Salafist imam, received a five-year prison term from a military court for giving an allegedly unlawful sermon in 2016 in Dagestan. To help…
International Press Institute highlights European defamation laws
The International Press Institute’s (IPI) work on legal reform is now being hosted by the Media Laws Database. IPI is a global network of publishers, editors,…
Claiming Dissent: Address by Dr. Agnes Callamard at the Columbia Global Freedom of Expression Prize Ceremony 2018
2018 Global Freedom of Expression Prize Ceremony Low Library, Columbia University April 25, 2018 Tonight, we are celebrating both resilience and conviction. We are…
The case of Roberta Chiroli, No TAV movement
In re Search Warrant No. 16-960-M-01 to Google
Bahrain: An Analysis of the Legitimacy of Charges Against Sheikh Maytham Al Salman
Download Full Statement in English or Arabic On January 6, 2016, Bahrain’s authorities charged Sheikh Maytham Al Salman, a human rights defender and cleric,…