Monday, May 23rd, 2011
As Belarus’s Central Bank devalues the ruble, the European Union has expanded sanctions and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) invokes human rights mechanism. Mike Harris reports
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Category News and Analysis | Tags: Tags: Belarus, Council of Europe, Europe, press freedom, sanctions,
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
Breathless narratives do not take full account of African realities, says Nick Young
Category Featured, News and Analysis | Tags: Tags: Nick Young, press freedom, Uganda,
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
Index’s Editor, Jo Glanville, will interview the award-winning investigative journalist Zaiba Malik about her British and Muslim identities, growing up in Bradford in the 70s and 80s and working undercover and in extreme circumstances in Bangladesh and in the heart of her family.
Monday 30 May, 10am
Venue: Summer House
This event is sold out.
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
A panel discussion with John Kampfner, Helena Kennedy, Philippe Sands, Ann Clwyd MP and David House (one of Bradley Manning’s only visitors in jail) on the legality of Manning’s detention, the US government’s reaction to the WikiLeaks scandal and the law surrounding whistleblowers.
Sunday 29 May, 4pm
Venue: Oxfam Stage
Buy tickets here
Category Events, Excluded | Tags: Tags: Bradley Manning, wikileaks,
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
Hero, enemy of the state, information champion, victim?
Ann Clwyd MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Human Rights
David Leigh, The Guardian
Emily Butselaar, Index on Censorship
Tuesday 24th May 2011, 6pm – 7.30pm
Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House, House of Commons
On the week that President Obama visits the UK and on the one year anniversary of Bradley Manning’s arrest and detention, a panel discusses the issues raised by the case of Bradley Manning and what happens now.
Bradley Manning is the US soldier accused of leaking information to the WikiLeaks website. Until 20 April, he was held in prison conditions which attracted the condemnation of human rights organisations around the world and which promoted an investigation by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.
Manning has yet to face trial, but when he does it will be in a US Court Martial. Can Manning receive a fair trial in the military courts system? What should our attitude be towards the charges levelled against Manning? What has been the effect of the WikiLeaks disclosures and what role did they play in the Arab Spring revolutions? What does the treatment of Manning say about the United States’ attitude to whistle-blowers?
This meeting is open to the public to attend; entry is via Portcullis House.
Friday, May 20th, 2011
The position of the media reporting parliamentary injunction breaches is “astonishingly unclear” says Lord Neuberger. Judith Townend reports (more…)
Category News and Analysis | Tags: Tags: Judith Townend, law, Media, privacy, superinjuctions, UK,
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Two former presidential candidates, Vladimir Neklaev and Vytal Rymashevsky were sentenced today alongside a number of political activists, Serguey Voznyak, Andrei Dmitriev, Alexander Feduta and Nasta Polojanko. They were all detained after protests against the disputed re-election of Alexander Lukashenko on 19 December last year. All were put on probation, Neklaev, Rymashevsky, Voznyak, Feduta and Dmitriev for two years and Polojanka, who is just 20 years old, for one year. The sentence was handed down by Judge Janna Jukouskaya, who is currently subject to a European Union travel ban.Category Index Index, minipost | Tags: Tags: Belarus, politics,
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Responding to the Master of the Rolls’ report on the use of superinjunctions, Jo Glanville, Editor of Index on Censorship said:
Lord Neuberger’s recommendations will bring much needed clarity to the use of injunctions. There has been a widespread perception that the courts have increasingly undermined open justice and free speech in favour of privacy.
The proposals in this report will go some way towards correcting the imbalance by providing clear guidelines, reaffirming the fundamental principles of open justice and freedom of expression, and offering for the first time a mechanism for monitoring the use of injunctions.
Super Injunction Report 20052011
Category Excluded, News and Analysis | Tags: Tags: law, privacy, superinjunctions, UK,
