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Index on Censorship
Coverage of deadly train crash censored in China
Two bullet trains collided on 23 July in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, killing at least 38 people and injuring 192. In a country where people don't trust the official news media --- favouring internet posts and microblog reports instead ---...
Sudan: Journalist jailed for reporting rape case
The Khartoum government’s crackdown on free expression continues.
Abdelgadir Mohammed Abdelgadir reports
Jail Without Bars
Mark Townsend spent nearly two years fighting a bizarre libel case in Dubai. Here he tells of the legal limbo of the gulf city’s labyrinthine legal system
Israel’s anti-boycott law a grave threat to free expression
Miri Weingarten explains the undemocratic new legislation that has been criticised in Israel and abroad
Montenegro: Newspaper’s cars torched
Two cars belonging to Vijesti, one of Montenegro's most popular independent daily newspapers, were torched last Thursday. The cars were parked opposite the headquarters of the Montenegrin Intelligence Agency when the attack took place. One...
China: Three Tibetan nuns jailed
Three nuns have each been jailed for three year after they staged a peaceful street protest, chanting “Free Tibet” and “long live His Holiness the Dalai Lama”, on 15 June. The women, aged between 21 and 31, are part of the Gyemadrak Nunnery in...
Pakistan: Two journalists “tortured and harassed”
Rana Yaseen and Ch Khalid Sardar claim they were "tortured and harassed" on the night of 16 July in the Bahalwapur region of Pakistan. Local journalists have since staged a protest outside the regional Press Club and are demanding immediate...
An open letter to the head of Iran’s judiciary
Index on Censorship calls for the release of film maker Mahnaz Mohammadi and actress and documentary maker
Pegah Ahangarani
Honduras: Radio station director killed
A 26-year-old radio station director was killed yesterday in Honduras. Nery Jeremias Orellana was stopped and shot in the head by masked gunmen as he rode home from work on a motorcycle. He died soon after he was taken to a local hospital. A...
Uzbekistan: Journalist hospitalised, ends hunger strike
Saodat Omonova, one of two women journalists protesting media censorship in Uzbekistan, has ended her hunger strike after being hospitalised earlier this week. It had been 16 days since Omonova and colleague, Malohat Eshonqulova, had begun their...
Malaysia’s ‘Bersih 2.0’ movement silenced
Authorities are intent on stifling calls for free elections, says Malik Imtiaz Sarwar