Internet filtering, no matter how modern, serves the same purposes as censorship always has, says Egbert Dommering Filtering is the latest form of censorship. By filtering we mean the technical blockages of the free flow of information across the...
Old colleagues meet again after 15 years to discuss new and old threats to the free word. Chris Keulemans reports from a conference on free expression to mark the Amsterdam World Book Capital / International Publishers Association 2008 IPA Freedom...
The ultimate danger of the phrase Age of Terror lies not in the imagined fears embedded in the word 'terror', but in the reality of the word 'age', says Rohan Jayasekera A while ago I got on a bus in London, the very last stage of a broken journey...
Germany's largest trade union has called for the resignation of Hans-Werner Sinn, president of the Ifo ecomonic research institute, after he compared the criticism of bank managers during the credit crunch to the persecution of Jews in Nazi...
The assassination of Ivo Pukanic and Niko Franjic reveals the dangers of reporting on Croatia's complex organised crime world, writes Goran Milakovic Ivo Pukanic, columnist with Nacional magazine and chairman of the NCL Media Group, was killed...
Journalist Ivo Pukanic and marketing executive Niko Franjic have been killed in a car-bomb attack in the Croatian capital, Zagreb. Pukanic's magazine, Nacional, had gained a reputation for reporting corruption and organised crime. Read more here
China sought to prevent the awarding of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Chinese dissident Hu Jia on 23 October. Prior to the awarding ceremony, the Chinese ambassador to the EU Song Zhe warned the European Parliament President...
Two Turkish policeman charged with abusing their office after posing for photographs with the lead suspect in the murder of Hrant Dink have been acquitted. The court claimed that it could not find 'solid and convincing evidence' of wrongdoing.
Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh's ordeal is part of the battle for the soul of Afghanistan, writes Harun Najafizada An appeal court's decision in Kabul to sentence Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh to 20 years in prison for 'blasphemy' has been condemned by the...
Turkish premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won a claim of 'moral damage' against satirical magazine Leman On the cover of its 6 February edition, the magazine carried a photomontage of Erdogan showing his middle finger, while a speech bubble read 'We...
A Kabul court has overturned the death sentence passed on student journalist Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh. The sentence has now been commuted to 20 years imprisonment. Kambakhsh described the sentence as 'unfair'. Read more here Read Index on...
Azerbaijani satirist and government critic Sakit Zakhidov, known by his pen name, Mirza Sakit, was brutally beaten in jail on 18 October, local media activists have told Index on Censorship. Sakit was jailed in June 2008 for allegedly carrying...