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Sri Lanka’s media needs reform — can new President Sirisena deliver?
The country needs a constitutionally recognised national commission to oversee media reform and ensure freedom of expression is properly defended, writes Rohan Jayasekera
Leaked document reveals how EU cut commitment to greater official openness
You can find support for the public’s right to access official information in the strangest places. Like a private EU policy paper draft. As leaked to and published by the whistle-blowers’ website Wikileaks. Rohan Jayasekara writes
Tunisia’s press faces repressive laws, uncertain future
The press in Tunisia is caught between the restrictive legal framework of the Ben Ali regime and the uncertainties of the post-revolutionary transition, Rohan Jayasekera, Ghias Aljundi and Yousef Ahmed report.
The future of internet governance? I wouldn’t start from here
After two weeks of negotiations, the threat of extended government influence over the internet remains. Rohan Jayasekera looks back on WCIT Plus: Dominique Lazanski on how the UK stood up for online freedoms at WCIT
Tunisian elections: media reform key to democracy
Tunisians flocked to voting stations yesterday in the country's first-ever free elections, but only the cultivation of an independent media will safeguard democracy and free expression, writes Rohan Jayasekera
Making a courtroom drama out of a media crisis
News International’s Hackgate scandal does not justify state press regulation, argues Rohan Jayasekera PLUS: John Kampfner: Britain’s media must start policing itself
Open politics will stretch Tunisian Islamists
Rohan Jayasekera asks if the return of Tunisia's Islamists help or hinder the national democratic project Read more on Tunisia
Tunisians will not be easily unplugged again
Discreet coup or "Jasmine Revolution", the departure of Tunisia's despot Zine el Abidene Ben Ali will not end his networked citizens' calls for reform. Rohan Jayasekera reports
Tunisia: The Middle East’s first cyberwar
Conventional wisdom suggests that the web’s power to drive social revolution is over-rated, but the Tunisian government still isn’t taking any chances. Its agents are hacking its opponents’ networks and sabotaging them, even as foreign hackers retaliate against the state. Rohan Jayasekera reports
Fresh eyes needed on WikiLeaks’ treasure trove of secrets
With maybe hundreds of human rights activists named in the WikiLeaks files, and frontman Julian Assange threatening to throw them open to the world, it's time for fair assessment of the potential threat to free expression advocates argues Rohan Jayasekera
Foreign Office report on human rights skims over UK record
Focus, partnership and joined-up advocacy in defence of human rights - the UK Foreign Office's lost vocation, as revealed by the diplomats’ own annual report. Rohan Jayasekera comments
Index on Censorship magazine
Current issue: Drafting freedom to last
Don’t miss the winter issue of Index on Censorship magazine. With the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta approaching, we discuss what a 21st-century Magna Carta would include. Don’t miss answers from Robert McCrum, Elif Shafak and Ferial Haffajee. Also in this edition: cartoonist Martin Rowson interviews fantasy writer Neil Gaiman; actor/director Simon Callow on why the police should do more to make sure controversial productions go on; Kaya Genç on attacks on women journalists in Turkey; plus Peter Kellner on democracy’s debt to the Magna Carta and John Crace’s humorous history, and the first English translation of Hanoch Levin’s controversial short story Diary of a Censor
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Sri Lankan press crackdown 2.0
Opposition voices targeted to silence them before parliamentary elections says Index's Rohan Jayasekera
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