International organisations call on the Azerbaijani authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Mehman Huseynov.
Azerbaijan: Crackdown on free expression accelerates with conviction of prominent blogger
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Le organizzazioni americane per la libertà di stampa pronte a lanciare un sito unico per segnalare gli attacchi (di Trump, ma non solo) contro i giornalisti nel Paese (Prima Online)
Gli attacchi mossi da Donald Trump alla stampa – tra accuse alle testate di news di essere ‘nemici del popolo’ e la decisione di escludere i giornalisti di alcune testate dalle conferenze stampa alla Casa Bianca – non possono che aver allarmato le...
Press freedom organizations are teaming up to start a news site (Poynter)
Later this year, a coalition of organizations including the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and...
Mehriban Aliyeva: The many faces of Azerbaijan’s First Lady and new Vice President (LSE)
Like the many faced god in the TV adaptation of the book, Game of Thrones, Azerbaijan’s new Vice President, Mehriban Aliyeva, has many faces – albeit she lacks the assassin followers of Game of Thrones, at least for now. She lists herself as the...
Press Freedom Faces ‘Unprecedented’ Threat in 2017 (Rights Info)
Journalists face an escalating risk of violence, threats and government censorship ‘like never before’, according to a report from Index on Censorship. Read the full article
Journalists in jeopardy: new report launches media freedom campaign
Media Freedom Month highlights pressures on journalists. Report shows media workers silenced through violence and arrest in 2016
Index on Censorship and Wellesley College launching an annual Freedom of Expression lecture
Leading international freedom of expression organisation Index on Censorship and the Freedom Project at Wellesley College, Boston, are pleased to announce the launch of a new partnership to promote awareness of censorship.
Борцы с цензурой по всему миру вошли в шорт-лист «Премии свободы слова»
16 смелых людей и организаций, которые борются за свободу слова по всему миру
Russian supreme court orders release of Index Award nominee Ildar Dadin
The long-term opposition and LGBT rights activist had been jailed under Russia’s repressive Public Assembly Law.
数位来自世界各地的言论自由活动家已被列入审查指数 (Index on Censorship) 之言论自由奖的最终候选名单
此奖项之最终候选者包括被津巴布韦当局拘扣的#ThisFlag活动家，一位来自伊朗在澳洲被拘留的寻求庇护者，一位中国大陆的漫画家以及一位来自俄罗斯的人权活动家。Index on Censorship 为了奖赏在世界各地与种种审查制度搏斗多年的记者以及艺术家而拟定了这个候选名单。特别值得一提的是，被大众提名的言论自由活动家一共有四百位之多。这十六位候选者为了争取言论自由经常遭受当地政府的迫害, 有的甚至面临生命危险。
OSCE must act quickly to fill media freedom role
Organisations have written to the Permanent Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe urging it to ensure continuity in the role of Representative on Freedom of the Media
In Defense of Milo Yiannopoulos’s Book (Publishers Weekly)
It has been almost a year to the day since I began representing Milo Yiannopoulos as his literary agent. I have largely stayed quiet about the controversy that started right before the New Year, when the book deal became public, but I feel...