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Moroccan blogger and internet cafe owner jailed
In Morocco blogger, El Bachir Hazzam, has been given a four-month sentence on a charge of "spreading false information about human rights that undermined the kingdom's image." Internet café owner Abdullah Boukfou was given a 12-month sentence on a...
Twitter targetted by pro-Iranian hackers
Social networking website Twitter, along with the pro-opposition website mowjcamp.org, has been targeted by a group of pro-government hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army accordning. Both websites, which became focal points for the...
UK: MPs take on CIA over rendition secrets
A group of MPs has launched legal action against the CIA in a landmark legal case in the United States in an attempt to force the authorities there to release thousands of pages of files about the extraordinary rendition of Islamic terrorist...
From Index on Censorship magazine: See no evil
Jytte Klausen talks to Index on Censorship about her new book on the Danish cartoons crisis and discusses why it was published without any illustrations.
PLUS: Jonathan Dimbleby, Kenan Malik and John Kampfner on Index on Censorship’s own debate on whether to publish the cartoons
Kenan Malik
Index on Censorship has in recent years chronicled many instances of what we’ve called "pre-emptive censorship": the willingness to censor material because of fear either of causing offence or of unleashing violence. From the Deutsche Oper...
Jonathan Dimbleby
It was a straightforward choice but not an easy decision. By tradition --- and properly --- the board does not readily interfere in the day-to-day editorial decisions taken by the Index on Censorship staff. Our job is to define the strategic...
2009: Year in review
Index on Censorship looks back on the highs and lows of the year. Editors, journalists, artists and scholars on the frontline review the challenges for free speech around the world. Internationally acclaimed artist Ai Weiwei defies attempts to...
BBC condemned for pulling “pregnant nun” ballet
The BBC has come under fire for pulling sections of the Sergei Diaghilev ballet from its Christmas television schedule after discovering it featured a deformed Pope who rapes nuns. BBC4 was due to show Eternal Damnation to Sancho and Sanchez in a...
Libel: BBC concedes to Trafigura
Index on Censorship and English PEN today have expressed dismay that the BBC has conceded the libel action brought by toxic waste shippers Trafigura in the High Court
Trafigura: Newsnight to apologise
The BBC news programme Newsnight will pay £25,0000 to charity and make on air apology after it withdrew claims that oil-traders Trafigura caused deaths in Ivory Coast
Libel: BBC backs down on Trafigura report
The BBC has today withdrawn claims made on flagship news programme Newsnight that oil-trading company Trafigura caused deaths in the Ivory Coast after toxic waste was dumped there. in a settlement designed to head off a potentially massively...
