ARTICLE 19

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Updated 18/11/2025
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Updated 07/01/2022

20/06/2022

Ep 7: Zahra Joya

Zahra Joya, an Afghan journalist and the founder of Rukhshana Media, Afghanistan's first female-led media organisation, speaks to Nicola about the day the Taliban retook Kabul; being airlifted to safety; and what it's like running a media organisation while living in exile. Host: Nicola KellyProducer: Christopher HootonMusic: Julian WhartonSound design: Rick Morris To find out more about ARTICLE 19's work, visit article19.org

20/06/2022

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20 min
03/10/2024

S2, Ep 10: Exposing the Wagner Group's atrocities in Africa

Today the Wagner Group is known to many for the role it played in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But in 2018, when Nigerian journalist Philip Obaji Jr began to investigate their activities in Africa, the group was still largely unknown. What Philip discovered was human rights atrocities on an unimaginable scale. In central and west Africa, the Wagner Group was exploiting the natural resources to fund Russia’s proxy wars, seizing gold mining sites and opening fire on the communities that lived nearby. One day in December 2023, Philip went on a high-risk reporting trip to the Central African Republic to visit a community of gold miners. But within an hour of arriving in a border village, he was captured, badly beaten and detained. In this week's episode, Philip tells Nicola about the risks he took to expose the truth about Putin’s paramilitaries and their crimes in Africa. Presented by Nicola Kelly Producer: Kevin Caners

03/10/2024

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23 min
14/02/2023

Hope on the Horizon

How do the titans of tech limit and manipulate our freedom of expression online? Today we're talking about bringing Big Tech down to size - and using regulation to do it. Emily Hart is joined by Argentinian free speech expert Agustina del Campo and ARTICLE 19's Maria Luisa Stasi, who leads the organisation's work on law and policy for digital markets - they'll be digging into Europe's Digital Markets Act - the most ambitious legislation so far to tackle the issues of power concentration and anti-competitive behaviours in digital markets. To learn more about ARTICLE 19 and the work we do, head to https://www.article19.org/ Follow us on:Twitter: https://twitter.com/article19org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ARTICLE19org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/article19/

14/02/2023

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37 min
11/04/2022

Ep 2: Olga Tokariuk

Ukrainian journalist Olga Tokariuk speaks to Nicola from a bomb shelter in the west of the country. She describes the tentacles of the Russian propaganda machine and the sophisticated disinformation war that has been waged in Ukraine since 2014; journalist safety, including the deliberate targeting of journalists and those killed, kidnapped and disappeared; and how best to get impartial information out to the world. Olga says: "War is not only waged on the battlefield with tanks and military vehicles and missiles and air defence systems; it's also waged in the media space. Russia has been waging this war against Ukraine since at least 2014, when it understood that Ukraine is slipping away from them and they are not able to control it the way they used to." To learn more about ARTICLE 19's work, visit our website.

11/04/2022

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32 min
09/05/2022

Ep 4: Matthew Caruana-Galizia

Matthew Caruana Galizia, journalist and son of the late investigative journalist Daphne Caruana-Galizia, speaks to Nicola about the day of his mother's murder and his determination to continue her legacy, exposing corruption among Malta's elite. Host: Nicola KellyProducer: Chris HootonMusic: Julian WhartonSound design: Rick Morris To find out more about ARTICLE 19's work, visit www.article19.org

09/05/2022

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31 min
27/09/2021

The right to truth

In the first of ARTICLE 19’s podcasts exploring the limits and challenges to freedom of expression, journalist and writer Jo Glanville talks to María De Vecchi Gerli, right to truth and accountability co-ordinator for ARTICLE 19 Mexico and Central America, Satko Mujagić, a survivor of Omarska concentration camp, currently working at the European Commission, and Sandra Peake, Chief Executive of WAVE Trauma Centre in Northern Ireland, about why the truth matters and what it takes to fight against impunity.

27/09/2021

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30 min
30/05/2024

S2, Ep 1: Youmna ElSayed, Al Jazeera Gaza correspondent

How do you report on a war when the war is at home? In this episode host Nicola Kelly speaks to Al Jazeera Gaza correspondent Youmna ElSayed. Youmna describes the challenges of reporting on the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks and Israel's devastating bombardment of the beseiged Gaza Strip in the months that have followed. She sets out the personal and professional costs of covering the war, the impact it has had on her family and the moment the Israeli Defence Forces called her home to issue a threat. Presented by Nicola Kelly Producer: Kevin Caners

30/05/2024

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32 min
25/07/2024

S2, Ep 5: Georgian journalist Tornike Mandaria

Though it rarely makes news headlines, in the Southern Caucasus a geopolitical battle is underway. Georgia is locked between democracy - with closer ties to Europe - and authoritarianism, with the Russian bear looming ever larger. It all started in April 2024, when a new law was introduced dubbed the 'foreign agent law', which mandated that any organisation receiving more than 20 per cent of its funds from abroad needed to register as organisations pursuing the interests of a foreign power. In response, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets calling for closer union with NATO and the EU, and for the government to turn away from Russia. Here, Nicola Kelly speaks to Georgian journalist Tornike Mandaria about the growing movement and what these demonstrations tell us about the future of this embattled nation and its people. Presented by Nicola KellyProducer: Kevin Caners

25/07/2024

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27 min
27/06/2024

S2, Ep 3: Hiba Morgan, Al Jazeera Sudan correspondent

With western media outlets dubbing the conflict in Sudan a “forgotten war”, what role do journalists play in making sure the world doesn’t look away? On the morning of 15 April 2023, Al Jazeera’s Sudan correspondent Hiba Morgan was up early, preparing to head out on a reporting trip northwest of the capital Khartoum. There had been something in the air for months; a sense that a feud between two generals - one from the Sudanese army, and the other from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF - was about to come to a head. But nobody could have known the scale of the war that was about to unfold around them. In this episode, Nicola talks to Hiba, the last remaining international correspondent based in Khartoum. She describes the atrocities she has witnessed, the complexities of verifying information when the situation is unclear and changing rapidly, and the determination to continue reporting from inside Sudan. Presented by Nicola KellyProducer: Kevin Caners

27/06/2024

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28 min
17/10/2024

S2, Ep 11: Syrian investigative reporter Ali Al-Ibrahim

It's 2011 and a spark has been lit, the Arab Spring sweeping across the Middle East and North Africa, toppling despotic regimes one by one. In the Syrian capital Damascus, journalist Ali Al-Ibrahim is studying for a master’s degree at university when the protests reach the surrounding streets. It was a hopeful moment, that something might be about to change. Then the government of President Bashar al-Assad responded. The crackdowns against peaceful protesters were swift and harsh, and reports of torture, disappearances and killings followed soon after. In this episode of 'Silenced', Nicola Kelly speaks to Ali about his work investigating human rights abuses inside his country, the challenges of gathering evidence from exile, and the importance of cross-border work to hold the regime and ISIS militants to account for the atrocities they have committed. Presented by Nicola Kelly Producer: Kevin Caners

17/10/2024

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18 min

Defending freedom of expression and information around the world.