Two journalists in Tunisia have been targets of harassment and violence this month by unknown assailants. Mouldi Zouabi, a journalist for Radio Kalima, was anonymously attacked and had his wallet and press credentials stolen from him outside of a...
After immense pressure from the right-wing on Sunday, the Israeli bookstore chain Tzomet Sfarim has stopped selling a leftist political manifesto heavily critical of the settler movement. In The National Left, the authors call settlers “messianic...
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has criticised Wikileaks, over its release of a video showing a 2007 US helicopter attack that killed 12 people in Baghdad. Gates said the videos released by the group were out of context and provided an incomplete...
Index welcomes new Conservative pledge to libel reform — all three main political parties are now committed to reform of our libel laws
British filmmaker Asad Qureshi has been confirmed to be one of the group of men currently missing in Northern Waziristan, a mountainous tribal region on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. On 26 March, two former ISI agents set off with Qureshi and...
The injunction and indictment of activist Anat Kamm for leaking confidential documents has revealed some uncomfortable truths about Israeli attitudes to free expression, says Shaul Adar
Reports are emerging that an injunction on the reporting of the case of Anat Kamm, an Israeli activist accused of leaking confidential military documents to the media, has been lifted by a Tel Aviv court. More to follow
In a self-preserving news blackout, the mainstream media proved the central point of the Starsuckers documentary: their “behaviour is monstrously hypocritical” Judith Townend reports
Large-scale riots have broken out in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, over what human rights groups claim are increasingly repressive policies of the president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev. One government minister has been killed, and the deputy prime...
Jack Straw’s measure to reduce success payments to lawyers in “no win no fee” libel cases sunk by a misinformed backbench rebellion, says Bob Satchwell
From Behzti to Behud: April 10 2010, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
Belfast Film Festival: Making Political Films About the North. 29 April