Imagine you’re an activist in exile.  You had to leave your friends and family to move hundreds of kilometres away from home. You have to avoid return visits, use encrypted messaging, and be careful a...

Imagine you’re an activist in exile.  You had to leave your friends and family to move hundreds of kilometres away from home. You have to avoid return visits, use encrypted messaging, and be careful a...

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Media freedom in France is threatened by concentration of media ownership, abusive legal proceedings, and threats to journalists’ safety.

ARTICLE 19 Europe and partners will meet with journalists, public officials, and foreign representations to discuss media freedom in Serbia.

250 political prisoners including key figures for the Belarusian democratic movement have been released on 19 March 2026.

✨ Our first ARTICLE 19 Europe newsletter is here! We’ve survived what felt like the longest January, and February hasn’t been much easier. Across Europe and Central Asia, people continue to face chal...

We will assess the developments for media freedom in Italy including political interference, legal harassment of journalists and threats to media pluralism.

Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych is banned from competing at the Winter Olympics for continuing to wear a helmet which features images of athletes killed during Russia's invasion of his ...

Join the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) webinar on 4 November marking one year since Serbia’s Novi Sad tragedy and nationwide protests.

The two journalists, imprisoned in Belarus and Georgia, are the laureates of the 2025 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, to be awarded by Parliament on 16 December.

Data Protection Commissioner has responsibility as lead supervisory authority for many of the world’s largest technology companies.

ARTICLE 19 and partners strongly condemn the car bomb attack on one of Italy’s leading investigative journalists and his family.

Join The Open Markets Institute and ARTICLE 19 on October 15th & 16th for a convening of high-level leading thinkers, lawmakers, technologists, and advocates to discuss the direct and growi...

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Join The Open Markets Institute and ARTICLE 19 on October 15th & 16th for a convening of high-level leading thinkers, lawmakers, technologists, and advocates to discuss the direct and growi...

The government must implement both domestic and EU-mandated reforms to protect media freedom and journalists in Bulgaria.

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The mission will assess the safety of journalists, media regulation, public broadcasting, media pluralism, defamation and SLAPPs, media ownership and the reform process required under EMFA.

During her pre-trial detention, Marfa Rabkova’s health deteriorated significantly due to a lack of adequate medical care.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Ihar Losik has been freed after spending more than five years in brutal Belarusian detention on trumped up charges, the latest release of a political prisone...

Russians are being pushed onto a new messaging service linked to the Kremlin, and experts warn people can expect them to be watching everything.

Anti-extremism laws are increasingly used by the Lukashenko regime to harass and prosecute dissenting voices in Belarus.

The regime must release all members of Human Rights Center 'Viasna', and other human rights defenders imprisoned in Belarus.

The European Correspondent is the place where you read about the climate crisis, migration, digitisation and much more – with an European angle!

Today Russian Security Forces (FSB) raided a cultural centre in Syktyvkar, northern Russia, because of alleged ties with ARTICLE 19, which is designated an ‘undesirable’ organisation in Russia.  Russi...

Only a comprehensive reform – encompassing both civil and criminal law – can effectively counter the use of SLAPPs in Poland.