Bahrain: ‘Blog father’ Ali Abdulemam goes missing
Bahraini 'blog father' goes missing; police raid family's home
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Index on Censorship Awards 2011 Charity Auction
The Free Expression awards is one of our major fundraising events. This year’s ceremony will feature a charity auction, with money raised going towards Index’s work at home and abroad Lots include: See your name in Howard Jacobson’s next book This...
Hungarian Parliament passes amendments to controversial media law
Judit Bayer: Amendments do not eliminate harmful effect of Hungarian media law
Hungarian Parliament passes amendments to controversial media law
Judit Bayer: Amendments do not eliminate harmful effect of Hungarian media law
The urge to classify
With the Obama administration failing to honour its commitment to openness, leaks are one of the few means of holding government to account, writes David L Sobel in the new issue of Index on Censorship magazine
Libel reform – a message from Index on Censorship Chair Jonathan Dimbleby
Dear friends, Yesterday the UK Justice Secretary laid out his plans for the draft defamation bill in the House of Commons. You can read it here. The Deputy Prime Minister, a strong supporter, also sets out his vision for the bill here. The...
Draft defamation bill welcomed in US
Rachel Ehernfeld’s case highlighted the problem of “libel tourism” in English courts. Emily Badger got her reaction to the government’s proposed reforms
Maltese student no longer faces jail for story
Court’s decision is a boost for Malta’s anti-censorship campaign, reports Charles Young
Assange breaks his silence at Cambridge Union
Laura MacPhee Assange breaks his silence at the Cambridge Union
Libel Reform Campaign welcomes government’s draft defamation bill
The Libel Reform Campaign welcomes the government’s draft defamation bill as a good step in the right direction – but Parliament needs to go further in key areas
Libel reform – a message from Index on Censorship Chair Jonathan Dimbleby
THE NET EFFECT
As digital technology continues to transform the culture of activism and access to information – from revolution in Egypt to reporting on the secret services in Russia --- Index on Censorship assesses the ways and means of using new media to get...
The net effect
How technology continues to transform the culture of activism, but also how it’s not popular to view it more cautiously as past of a long game.