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Index on Censorship
Impunity: stopping the killers
Impunity is an urgent issue facing press freedom campaigners. Joel Simon of the Committee to Protect Journalists outlines a roadmap for action
Venezuela: Chavez bent on silencing media
Free media in Venezuela suffers another blow, RCTV has been removed from cable platforms. Daniel Duquenal reports
Venezuela orders RCTV removal from cable
Venezuela's media regulator has ordered that RCTV be removed from transmission by cable providers. RCTV's terrestrial licence was revoked in 2007, in an act seen by many as revenge for the station's support for a coup against President Hugo Chavez...
Tweeting against freedom
The social media campaign against Rod Liddle, rumoured to be made editor of the Independent, is not just illiberal, argues Hari Kunzru, it is dangerous, censorious, and inexcusable. The centre-left has damaged the culture of free speech in Britain
SLAPPs and chills
This article originally appeared in Index on Censorship magazine 01/99 This year's round-up of television troubles concentrates specifically on the bullying of broadcasters and asks: are they being SLAPPed around? Julian Petley reports SLAPPS...
Libel: an unsavoury business
Fear of libel actions and of losing advertising revenue has persuaded most media to leave well alone when it comes to exposing some of the more unsavoury aspects of the burger giant McDonald’s. Julian Petley reports
In the shadow of Mugabe
The new coalition government in Zimbabwe has so far failed to deliver on its promise of greater media freedom, says Stanley Kwenda
US reporter ‘expelled’ by Israel
Jared Malsin, news editor for a Palestinian agency, put on flight to New York reports
Dimi Reider
Straw announces plans to reduce libel costs
English PEN and Index on Censorship today welcome Jack Straw’s proposal to make dramatic cuts to lawyers’ win fees in defamation cases, but warn that fees are only one part of a libel system in need of serious reform.
Commemorating Hrant Dink: “Let’s talk about the living”
Editor Hrant Dink was killed on 19 January 2007. In this interview with Nouritza Matossian, published in Index on Censorship magazine shortly after his death, Dink described his commitment to free expression and reconciliation between Armenians and Turks
Close, but not quite
Allen Green: Libel reformers should cautiously welcome the Jackson report on court costs