Alexander Podrabinek has been driven into hiding after he wrote an article critical of defenders of the Soviet legacy.
Maria Eismont reports
Index on Censorship
Guinea: protesters killed
Dozens of protesters were shot dead in a crowded football stadium by Guinean security forces at a demonstration against the country’s military leader Captain Moussa "Dadis" Camara on 28 September. As many as 58 people had been brought in to the...
Berlusconi: new attack on media
Newspapers linked to Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi have launched an attack on state broadcaster RAI, telling readers not to pay their television licence fee. The call is part of a long-running assault on media critical of the governing party and Berlusconi’s business empire.
Download Index on Censorship’s report on political interference in Italian media here
Civil liberties suspended in Honduras
Interim leaders in Honduras suspended civil liberties on 27 September. Measures can now be taken to break up "unauthorised" public meetings, arrest people without warrants and restrict the news media. Media outlets which "attack peace and public...
Russian reporter goes into hiding
Freelance journalist and human rights activist, Alexandr Podrabinek, has gone into hiding after getting death threats over a controversial article about the government’s defence of the Soviet Union. Podrabinek wrote his controversial article for...
Bahrain: government orders over 1,000 websites blocked
On 23 September, the government has announced plans to block 1040 websites, referring to a resolution which states that all telecommunications companies and internet service providers "shall block pornographic websites". Many of the websites to be...
PROTEST! Talking about your right to speak out
PROTEST! Talking about your right to speak out. Monday, 12 October, South Bank University, London
Press restricted in Honduras
Censorship on both national and international press in Honduras has increased since the return of Manuel Zelaya to the capital Tegucigalpa on 21 September. The international press has been kept away from the pro-Zelaya demonstrations and has been...
Ahmadinejad questioned about Maziar Bahari
Newsweek quizzes Iranian President Ahmadinejad about Tehran’s imprisonment of Maziar Bahari
Does free speech apply to the far right?
Iraq: report condemns army attack on PMOI camp
A new report has condemned the Iraqi army’s action against the Iranian People’s Mojahideen in Ahsraf Camp, Iraq. Here, Index on Censorship presents the report’s findings
Nigerian cinemas to stop showing “District 9”
Cinemas in the Nigerian capital, Abuja have been asked by the Information Minister Dora Akunyili to stop screening sci-fi blockbuster District 9 as it discriminates against Nigerians by negatively portraying them as violent gangsters and criminals....