Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel prize in Literature 2010, explains in an article first published in Index on Censorship in 1978 why Latin America’s writers became the most reliable interpreters of political reality
Think tank MigrationWatch has released a statement saying that it no longer intends to sue political commentator Sally Bercow for libel. It was revealed by Index on Censorship last week that Mrs Bercow had been threatened with legal action over...
Detectives with the federal Investigative Committee say they are examining an expanded circle of suspects in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. The new suspects are said to be ethnic Chechens who wanted to get on the good side of Chechen...
The Sudanese Ministry of Information has refused to renew the license of Monte Carlo radio's Arabic service, which broadcasts in Sudan from Paris. The radio station was told that certain laws and regulations prevent the license renewal from taking...
The co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party has been convicted of 'propaganda for an illegal organisation' and handed a ten-month prison sentence. Selahattin Demitras was punished for making a statement about the detention conditions...
Paramilitary personnel ransacked the Balochistan offices of private television channel VSH News TV on 4 October. VSH staff were told by members of the Frontier Corps (FC) to put their hands up, and were then frisked and told to leave the office....
Liberia has become the first West African nation to introduce a Freedom of Information Act. In a move welcomed by free expression groups across the country, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf signed the new legislation on the 4 October. The law comes...
Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was killed four years ago today. Here we republish her last article for Index on Censorship magazine
As pressure mounts on Mauro Masi CEO of Rai TV, Giulio D’Eramo looks at why journalists see the government-owned network as a threat to freedom of expression
A teenage blogger who has been detained for nine months has been accused of spying for the American Embassy in Egypt. Tal al Mallohi, who is currently being held in Duma women's prison near Damascus, was arrested by Syrian Intelligence Services in...
A letter to the head of the Iranian judiciary, from Index on Censorship, PEN Canada, Article 19, Committee to Protect Journalists, and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
The importance of Norman Wisdom to Albanians during the Hoxha period cannot be overestimated, writes Mira Blushi
