Index on Censorship » Amnesty http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » Amnesty http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org Uzbek photographer pledges to appeal guilty verdict http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/02/uzbek-photographer-pledges-to-appeal-guilty-verdict/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/02/uzbek-photographer-pledges-to-appeal-guilty-verdict/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:49:39 +0000 Intern http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=8159 An award winning Uzbek photographer sentenced to jail after a court ruled she had insulted the nation, has been released thanks to an amnesty.  Umida Akhmedova said that she had done nothing wrong and will therefore appeal on the verdict. Akhmedova could have faced six months in jail or two years in a labour camp.

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]]> insulted the nation, has been released thanks to an amnesty.  Umida Akhmedova said that she had done nothing wrong and will therefore appeal on the verdict. Akhmedova could have faced six months in jail or two years in a labour camp.

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]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/02/uzbek-photographer-pledges-to-appeal-guilty-verdict/feed/ 0 Iraq play wins Amnesty award http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2009/08/iraq-play-wins-amnesty-award/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2009/08/iraq-play-wins-amnesty-award/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:17:11 +0000 Index on Censorship http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=5156 A play which looks at the war in Iraq from three different viewpoints has won the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. Palace of the End by Judith Thompson was described by the human rights organisation as “a truly formidable piece of work”. Read more here

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