Joris Luyendijk: Hello Everybody! 24 June, Free Word Centre
PAST EVENT: Joris Luyendijk: Hello Everybody! 24 June, Free Word Centre
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Index on Censorship
PAST EVENT: Lord Lester Introduces His Defamation Private Members’ Bill, 22 June, Free Word Centre
Lord Lester introduces his Defamation Private Members’ Bill, 22 June, Free Word Centre
PAST EVENT: The Idea of Human Rights and Foreign Policy, 15 June, University College London
The Idea of Human Rights and Foreign Policy: 15 June
Radio redux
From unsung heroes to shock jocks, Index looks at free speech on the airwaves
Maziar Bahari and Jo Glanville on Channel 4 News
Maziar Bahari and Jo Glanville on Channel 4 News
Iran: Beyond Twitter, the new revolution
Iran’s green movement will be reborn in small media, says Mahmood Enayat
Quotes costs Turkish journalist prison sentence
Irfan Atkan has been sentenced to 15 months in prison under Turkey’s draconian anti-terror laws
Turkey: Dink murder journalist cleared
Turkish journalist, Nedim Şener has been acquitted following his prosecution for alleging police negligence in his book “The Dink Murder and the Intelligence Lies” with respect to the murder of Turkish-Armenian reporter Hrant Dink. Accused of a...
Somaliland: Journalists arrested over opposition flag
Police in Somaliland arrested three journalists and six others last Wednesday (2 June), after activists leased a house next to that of the region's president and used it to display a flag in support of the opposition Kulmiye party. Speaking from...
US soldier arrested over Wikileaks Iraq video
Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted that he had given a classified US combat video and top secret State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks. Brad Manning is alleged to have leaked a video...
Detained Armenian journalist freed
A pro-opposition journalist arrested and detained on 2 June has been released. Ani Gevorgian was covering a sit-in for the daily national newspaper Haykakan Zhanamak when police clashed with protesters and arrested 17 people. Police allege she...
DRC: Police arrested over death of human rights activist
Two policemen have been arrested, and the country's most senior policeman suspended from duty, after the death of a human rights activist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. "Voice of the Voiceless" campaigner Floribert Chebeya, whose body was...
