Libel reform is a “cause whose time has come”
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Index on Censorship
Free Expression Awards 2011: Law and Campaigning
Awards judge Gugulethu Moyo introduces the nominees for the Bindmans Law and Campaigning award When thinking about freedom of expression, it's easy just to focus on the headlines. But it is often the work behind the scenes that makes the...
Free Expression Awards 2011: Journalism
Awards judge Lindsey Hilsum introduces the nominees for the Guardian Journalism award "In the era of new media, some might think traditional journalism is yesterday's story, but this year's entries prove that's not so. Today's facebookers and...
Free Expression Awards 2011: Arts
Awards judge Hans-Ulrich Obrist introduces the Intelligent Life Arts Award "In the field of the arts, liberty of expression is very often taken for granted. However, one should not forget that some artists struggle to express themselves in a lot of...
Free Expression Awards 2011: New Media
Awards judge David Rowan introduces the nominees for the Index on Censorship New Media Award, supported by Google In a year when WikiLeaks held government activities to unprecedented scrutiny, and Facebook and Twitter empowered citizens in...
Guardian reporter held by Libyan authorities
Libyan officials have confirmed that award-winning Guardian correspondent Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is in their custody after he went missing while reporting from the country. The foreign ministry in the capital Tripoli said that Libyan authorities were...
Libel reform: Public interest should be at the heart of the new defamation bill
Libel reform: Public interest should be at the heart of the new defamation bill
Yemen: Journalists at risk as protests spread
The government may claim that media workers are protected, but the reality on Yemen’s streets is very different, says Iona Craig
China puts pressure on foreign reporters
China’s phantom Jasmine pro-democracy protests have turned into a news story about news journalists. The heavy-handed treatment of foreign reporters --- detained in an underground bunker, shadowed, beaten, harassed and threatened --- has now become...
Belarus prisoners’ families launch legal action against Lukashenko
The families of political prisoners detained in Belarus after the 19 December election have instructed a London law firm to launch civil proceedings against the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko. This is the first time that a serving...
History lessons: Islam’s tradition of debate
London Imam Usama Hasan has been caught up in a storm of religious controversy over his views. In an article from the Index archive, he argues that Islam traditionally embraces debate
Freedom sacrificed for an easy life, in Apple’s Brave New World
Apple should be part of the open online society, rather than the architects behind a system of control, argues Bill Thompson