Sherry Jones’s controversial The Jewel of Medina is to go on sale again in Serbia, having been withdrawn in July. The director of Boebook publishing company Aleksandar Jasic, commented on the change of direction by stating that ‘it would be good...
The establishment of an independent press council may help protect journalists and Internet activists like Raja Petra Kamaruddin, writes Daniel Chandranayagam Tan is a young Malaysian, newly employed in the private sector. Like many Malaysians his...
French satirist Maurice Sinet has launched a new magazine he claims will champion free speech. Ruth Michaelson looks back at the very French circumstances surrounding this move In that special way that’s only found in France, the past...
A cousin of Ingush president Murat Zyazikov was shot dead on Wednesday (10 September), amid fears that the fallout from the muder of Ingushetiya.ru owner Magomed Yevloyev could lead to more killing. The family of Yevloyev has declared a vendetta...
Controversial Dutch MP Geert Wilders, along with Danish editors and a cartoonist involved in the Mohammed cartoons controversy, has been charged with 'blasphemy, demeaning Islam and Muslim feelings' in Jordan. Read more here
This week's convictions of three British men on terrorism offences showed that there is still much to learn about jihadist groups in the UK and internationally. In an article in the new issue of Index on Censorship, Newsnight's Richard Watson...
Journalist Radhika Devakumar narrowly escaped death on 8 September after being shot at three times in her own house in Batticaloa. An unknown group of gunmen entered her house and left her severely injured after shooting her in the abdomen, chest...
A programme investigating the murder of Ingushetiya.ru founder Magomed Yevloyev was withdrawn last from Russian TV station NTV's schedule last Sunday. According to the website, the station claimed the programme was not broadcast for 'technical...
Indian artist MF Husain hes been cleared of obscenity charges over his painting 'Mother India'. Hindu groups had claimed that the painting, featuring a nude posed in the shape of a map of India, was sacrilegious. Read more here
Three members of a television crew from Polish channel Telewizja Polska (TVP) were detained on 8 September near the village Karaleti, between South Ossetia and Georgia. They had been trying to enter the area to report on the expected Russian troop...
This week, four feminist bloggers were sentenced to imprisonment in Iran. In an exclusive preview of the new issue of Index on Censorhip (out next week), Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi discusses the prospects for free expression in her...
The death of Magomed Yevloyev is a terrifying and tragic blow to freedom of expression in Russia, writes Maria Eismont One can only guess what happened on 31 August in business class on a flight from Moscow to Magas, the capital of Ingushetiya...