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DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism welcomes its 20
 19 Litvack Prize awardee\, Deniz Yücel\, who will be accepting the award o
 n behalf of all threatened and silenced Turkish voices.\n\nMr. Yücel is a 
 German-Turkish journalist and producer who became a target of the Turkish 
 government through his critical reporting on sensitive topics\, such as th
 e Kurdish issue\, the Syrian war and hacked documents. He was detained in 
 pre-trial custordy in Turkey in February 2017 on charges of supporting ter
 rorism\, and was released from pretrial detention after a year in prison\,
  10 months of which were spent in solitary confinement.\n\nThere will be a
  keynote speech by David Kaye\, professor of law at the University of Cali
 fornia\, Irvine\, and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promoti
 on and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. Appoi
 nted by the UN Human Rights Council in June 2014\, he is the global body’s
  principal monitor for freedom of expression issues worldwide. His themati
 c reporting has addressed\, among other things\, growing repression of fre
 edom of expression globally\, encryption and anonymity\, the protection of
  whistleblowers and journalistic sources\, the roles and responsibilities 
 of private Internet companies\, the regulation of online content by social
  media and search companies and the ways in which Artificial Intelligence 
 technologies implicate human rights issues.\n	\n	The closing remarks will be
  given by Veysel Ok\, a Turkish free speech and press rights advocate\, kn
 own for his defense of journalists' rights. He has acted as legal counsel 
 in more than 400 press freedom trials and has defended some of Turkey’s mo
 st well-known journalists\, including Die Welt correspondent Deniz Yücel.
 \n\nAbout the Litvack Award & Lecture\n\nThe Litvack Award was created in 
 1987 to recognize the memory of Mr. Robert Litvack\, BCL'63\, whose passio
 nate commitment to the defense of the rule of law brought about landmark d
 ecisions in aboriginal and linguistic rights. It is awarded to 'a person w
 ho has made a distinguished contribution to the defense of the rule of law
  and the protection of the individual against arbitrary power'.\n
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LOCATION:Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (NCDH 100)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, Q
 C\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Targeted\, Monitored and Silenced: Digital Attacks on Open Societie
 s and the Freedom of Expression
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 d-digital-attacks-open-societies-and-freedom-expression-294798
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