Smartphone message monitoring may be necessary for governments, but it should not turn to mere snooping, says Salil Tripathi
BlackBerry to allow Indian government limited access
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Azerbaijan: Authorities refuse to investigate attack on journalists
Security guards who attacked two journalists may go unpunished after authorities refused to investigate the case. Elmin Badalov and Anar Gerayly were beaten by a wealthy businessman's private security guards on 28 July. The two newspaper reporters...
PAST EVENT: Banned Books – is censorship by public libraries ever acceptable?
Banned Books – is censorship by public libraries ever acceptable? 15 September, 5.30pm
Iran: New wave of censorship just a drop in the ocean
Prohibitions on reporting on green movement leaders are just the latest restrictions imposed by the Islamic Republic. Negar Esfandiary reports
Defence secretary calls for ban of computer game
Defence secretary Liam Fox has called for shops to ban a computer game that allows players to act as the Taliban and kill Nato troops. Fox said he was "disgusted and angry" and called the game "un-British". The updated version of Medal of Honour,...
PAST EVENT: Smashed Hits 2.0 Live
Index on Censorship magazine launches its new issue Smashed Hits 2.0 Live with Mahsa Vahdat and Khyam Allami. 21 September, 6.30pm, Free Word Centre
PAST EVENT: Index on Censorship presents…GO EAST!
Index on Censorship presents GO EAST with the Belarus Free Threatre. Sunday 29 August. Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club
Turkey: Stranger than fiction
The Turkish government’s battle with the PKK threatens to stifle art itself, says Kaya Genç
Frank Kermode: Palaces of memory
Literary critic Frank Kermode died this week at the age of 90. Writing for Index on Censorship in 2001, he discussed memory and biography
Australia: Push to censor smartphone apps
Australia's ruling Labor party has called for smartphone applications and games to face the national censor. A loophole in the Classification Act (1995) means that games distributed or playable on mobile phones, including the Apple iPhone, are not...
Peru: Award winning radio journalist snubbed by government
Carlos Flores Borja, winner of the Guardian Journalism award at this year's Index on Censorship Free Expression Awards Ceremony, has been told that he will not be allowed relaunch of Amazonian community radio station Radio La Voz de Bagua, in spite...
Russia: released rapper launches protest song
Rapper Noize MC, who was jailed for 10 days in Volgograd after mocking local police in a song and an improvised rap at a festival, has released a new song criticising the police. Launched soon after the artist left jail last week, and entitled "10...
