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Darian Pavli

Senior Attorney

Darian Pavli is senior attorney on freedom of information and expression issues with the Open Society Justice Initiative. Based in the New York office, he has been involved, among other things, with impact litigation before international human rights mechanisms, and has played a leading role in efforts to establish the right of access to government information as a basic human right internationally.

Pavli works closely with human rights groups in Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and elsewhere to address a broad range of freedom of expression and information deficits, and writes and speaks extensively on these issues. Prior to joining the Open Society Justice Initiative, Pavli was the Southern Balkans researcher for Human Rights Watch and a senior attorney for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's Mission in Albania. He taught constitutional law in his native Albania, and holds advanced law degrees from NYU Law School and Central European University. Pavli is a founder and steering committee member of the International Media Lawyers’ Association.

Mistaken Victim of CIA Rendition and Abuse Gets European Court Hearing
May 16, 2012
Khaled El-Masri was told by captors that he was in a place where "there is no law, no rights; no one knows where you are, and no one cares about you."

Pursuing Justice for Gambia's Deyda Hydara
Darian Pavli
December 16, 2011
blog BLOG  
Seven years after the death of Deyda Hydara, the dean of Gambian journalism, the authorities there have yet to properly investigate what happened. Now members of his family are seeking justice at the regional ECOWAS court.

How Governments Abuse Advertising in Latin America
Vonda Brown
October 13, 2011
blog BLOG  
Darian Pavli of the Open Society Justice Initiative talks about the threats to freedom of expression posed by abusive allocation of public advertising funds, and what is being done to address this in Latin America.

UK Press Scandal Raises Risks on Free Expression
Darian Pavli
July 22, 2011
blog BLOG  
Public outrage over phone hacking by tabloid journalists should not lead to restraints on the ability of the media and the general public to hold politicians and other public figures accountable for their actions.

CIA Rendition: The Beginning of the End of Impunity?
Darian Pavli
February 10, 2011
blog BLOG  
The abduction of an innocent man, which became one of the most embarrassing diplomatic incidents in recent memory, just got a little more embarrassing for the CIA.

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