[IRP] Azerbaijan situation @IGF 2012 - Open Letter

[Dixie Hawtin]

Thanks Marianne for keeping us informed! I see the IGC list are talking about asking the secretariat to clarify the IGF rules about sharing these types of information - which is very important. On the plus side this gives us a chance to draw even more attention to the situation in Azerbaijan and if anyone has a Twitter account etc. please do share the report! I will share it on our IRP Twtter account (netrights) now.

And I'm pleased to say that everyone who replied was in favour of signing on to the Best Bits statement - please share widely! http://bestbits.igf-online.net/statement/#comment-17

Dixie

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Subject: [IRP] Azerbaijan situation @IGF 2012 - Open Letter

Dear all

And to loop the loop; the Open Letter being circulated about the suppression of the report (links below); http://en.hrsu.org/archives/1741

best
MF

On 07/11/2012 10:32, Marianne Franklin wrote:
Dear all

Sorted out the places Azeri activists are speaking today; thankfully not in parallel but in back-to-back sessions:

Elvin Mejidov is speaking at the RP Coalition-Access workshop ( http://wsms1.intgovforum.org/content/no157-access-internet-human-right) at 14.30 in Room 2

Emin Milli has tweeted that he's "Speaking today at #igf12<https://twitter.com/search?q=%23igf12&src=hash> in Baku at the workshop about "Civil Rights in Digital Age" at 16.30 in room 8"

To those of you not at Baku, speaking here is all via headphones; a different aural space for f2f meetings..

best
MF


On 07/11/2012 10:21, Marianne Franklin wrote:
Dear all

Emin Milli is not speaking at the IRP Coalition-Access workshop ( http://wsms1.intgovforum.org/content/no157-access-internet-human-right) but Elvin Mejidov. Information is free but also needs to be accurate. Hopefully Emin can be there too.

cheers
MF

On 07/11/2012 10:11, Marianne Franklin wrote:
Hi again

Had to resend this as my typing is appalling!

On 07/11/2012 10:07, Marianne Franklin wrote:
Dear all

Many of you will already have this via other lists from people at the Baku IGF. A report critical of the Freedom of Expression situation in Azerbaijan is being prevented from distribution at the IGF based on a UN rule about 'naming and shaming' that is clearly being enforced for some and not for others.

Azeri dissidents are being forbidden from distributing the printed report but it is (still) available as a PDF online; For how long is the question as Freedom of Expression online is also under threat:

http://www.ifex.org/azerbaijan/2012/11/05/irfs_launches_new_report/

For more see Emin Milli's Blog. Emin will also be speaking this afternoon at the IRP Coalition-Access hosted workshop entitled "Is access to the Internet a human right?": A controversial theme as we all recall when the Charter on Internet Rights and Principles was being written so given this recent development on the ground a timely moment to hear what Azeri activists have to say; http://wsms1.intgovforum.org/content/no157-access-internet-human-right

Feel free to circulate the Link to the report widely (and "read before burning')
MF






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