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In response to the brutal crackdown against journalists and writers in Islamic Republic of Iran, Index on Censorship has joined a coalition of leading press freedom and free expression groups to
launch a petition drive calling for the release of those imprisoned.

ARTICLE 19 urges Brazilian legislators to bring the bill on the right to information into line with international standards, including by taking into consideration civil society recommendations, and to concentrate efforts to adopt a final text of the Brazilian Right to Information Act during 2010.

ARTICLE 19, together with other human rights organisations, urges the
Georgian government to stop pressurising and intimidating prominent Georgian investigative journalist Vakhtang Komakhidze.

More than sixty media, civil society and human rights representatives from the North Caucasus gathered in Moscow on 16 February 2010, together with leading Russian NGOs to discuss joint actions for improving the state of freedom of expression in the North Caucasus.

Organisations supporting journalists, writers and publishers in Islamic Republic of Iran on February 17 called on Tehran officials to open the door to the United Nations’ special rapporteurs on human rights – including its expert on freedom of expression Frank la Rue, right.

A coalition of leading international journalists´, writers´, and publishers´ organisations on 11 February launched a campaign to press the government of Islamic Republic of Iran to release their colleagues imprisoned in the wake of last year´s disputed presidential election in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Art, in any form, constitutes a key medium through which information and ideas are imparted and received. Artist Alert, launched by ARTICLE 19 in 2008, highlights cases of artists around the world whose right to freedom of expression has been curtailed and abused last January, and seeks to more effectively promote and defend freedom to create.

Reporters Without Borders regrets that President Alexander Lukashenko (Aliaksandr Lukashenka) signed a decree on 1 February 2010 establishing extensive control over Internet access and online content. “The Belarusian authorities are trying to tighten their control over the Internet as they already did with the traditional media,” Reporters Without Borders stated.

The cult of celebrity is widely castigated in the modern media, but do extraordinary people have a role to play in society? Can eccentrics and others in the public eye tell us something about the limits of personality? English PEN seeks to uncover some of the uses of fame.