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Index on Censorship
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...
Zimbabwe: Police disrupt newspaper launch
The launch of the first new independent domestic Zimbabwean newspaper in 17 years was disrupted by Harare police on Friday (4 June). Shortly before the first edition of NewsDay was due to be delivered to newstands around Harare, the newspaper's...
Video: Demonstration for Eynulla Fatullayev
Video: Demonstration for Eynulla Fatullayev
Bangladesh shuts down pro-opposition newspaper
Tintin ban is tantamount to “book burning”
A court case in Belgium has heard lawyers representing Georges Remi, the cartoonist behind the children's sleuth Tintin, attack calls by critics to ban the stories as "like burning books". Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo, a Congolese man based in Brussels,...
Uzbek radio host sentenced to six years
Uzbek poet, radio host and sports commentator Khayrullo Khamidov was sentenced to six years in prison on 28 May after being found guilty of belonging to a banned Islamic group. His lawyers plan to appeal the ruling to reduce his sentence....