Western policymakers must proceed with caution when considering online surveillance and web-blocking; their actions impact on human rights abroad, argues Cynthia Wong
Global internet freedom begins at home
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Index on Censorship
UK: Parliament Square protester Brian Haw dies
Parliament Square peace campaigner, Brian Haw, died of lung cancer at the weekend while receiving treatment for the disease in Germany. Haw began his round-the-clock protest opposite the Houses of Parliament on 2 June 2001 and faced numerous...
Pakistan: Guardian journalist beaten by men in police uniforms
Guardian journalist Waqar Kiani has claimed that he was abducted and tortured by Pakistani intelligence agents on Saturday night. The alleged attack followed a television appearance where he discussed a previous assault which took place in 2008,...
Jordan: News agency stormed after reporting on attack on King Abdallah
On Saturday the Agence France-Presse bureau in Amman was attacked. The office was reportedly stormed by a dozen men armed with clubs who smashed furniture and telephones and threw files to the ground. Two days before the attack, editor in chief...
Europe puts pressure on Belarus regime
European Union places sanctions on Belarusian companies, individuals after
Index on Censorship campaign
Guido's advice to the Chinese Communist Party's propagandists
Guido Fawkes: My advice to the Chinese Communist Party’s propagandists
Belarus: Human rights activist reportedly “tortured” in prison
Human rights activist, Mikita Likhavid, is being tortured in prison according to claims made by the Belarus opposition group Youth Front. In March Likhavid, a member of the Za Svabodu (For Liberty) movement, was sentenced to three and a half years...
Foreign activists attacked in Azerbaijan
American journalist Amanda Erickson and British activist Celia Davies Carys were followed home and beaten by four men on 15 June in Baku. The women are in Baku to train local journalists. Carys sustained a broken arm in the attack.
Sierra Leone: Policeman arrested over journalist’s death
A policeman was arrested yesterday (16 June) as the key suspect in the killing of Ibrahim Foday, a journalist for Exclusive newspaper. Foday was stabbed five days ago in Freetown while covering a riot on a land dispute, the cause of his death was...
Belarus: Journalist faces four years in prison for “insulting the president”
Andrey Pochobut, a correspondent for the Polish newspaper GazetaWyborcza who stands accused of defamation and “insulting the president”, is facing a four-year prison sentence. The trial began yesterday in Leninski district court, Belarus, with...
Privacy is dead!
In this issue, Index explores whether privacy is the friend or foe of free speech, as it is now one of the central issues of the digital communications age.
Turkey: Thirty-two computer hackers arrested in police raids
Turkish police yesterday arrested 32 computer hackers who are suspected of links with the anti-government hacker collective, Anonymous. Over the weekend cyber attacks were launched on a number of government sites to protest against proposed net...