We are following the #righttoprotest closely – watch this space!
State repression of protests in Brazil is nothing new. Throughout much of the military dictatorship from 1964-1985, freedom of expression was formally censored; this censorship applied to both the press and street protests. During the democratic period since then, reports of police violence against demonstrators are still not uncommon. Since 2013, however, this climate of …
Remember Pussy Riot? This unorthodox but legitimate denunciation of Putin’s politics by a punk group of Russian women in a Moscow Cathedral a couple of years ago would be penalised in Madrid, as of this week. Following the growing global trend towards authoritarianism in governments’ treatment of dissent, often accompanied by vaguely worded laws, …
Hundreds of thousands of people marched through London’s streets Saturday, 20 June 2015, to protest against the newly-elected Conservative government’s proposed austerity measures. Afsaneh Rigot, from the ARTICLE 19 Iran Programme, attended to observe and conduct interviews with protesters. 250,000 people took to the streets of London united against austerity measures in the UK and …
Launched at the UN Human Rights Council on 19 June; ARTICLE 19’s Right to Protest Principles aim to ensure protection of protest in all its forms – not least online. Pierre (Rennes) – Flickr Protest is increasingly going digital. Whether it is using the internet to organise and report physical acts of protest, using online space as a …