On 6 May, the head office of the Leadership newspaper in Abuja was raided by policemen from the Niger State Command in north central Nigeria. The police had a list of 15 senior editorial staff who they claimed were wanted in Minna, the Niger State...
Gazeta Slonimskaya, an independent weekly journal in Belarus, has been threatened with eviction by state authorities. In what many see as a linked event in Belarus's crackdown on independent media, Uladzimir Uladashchuk, editor of Gazeta...
The estimated 30,000 journalists expected to converge on Beijing for the 2008 Olympiad need to prepare themselves well in advance before they blunder across one of the world’s least understood and most volatile domestic political stages, writes...
The Russian authorities are taking a heavy-handed approach to web monitoring, writes Maria Eismont ‘Error. The website you’ve requested either doesn’t exist, or is overloaded.’ This announcement greeted visitors to the electronic version of Russian...
Al Jazeera cameraman Sami Al Hajj has been released from Guantanamo Bay after six years. The US military have not pressed any charges againt Al Hajj, despite claiming he had smuggled weapons for Al Qaeda. Al Hajj, who has been reunited with his...
Academic Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom was last week stripped of his honorary post at University College London, after his controversial views on the Holocaust and 9/11 were uncovered by bloggers. Was the university right to disassociate itself from him,...
Last Monday, Index on Censorship honoured Burma's monks for their struggle against the ruling junta. The military regime is now cracking down on dissent as it pushes through a new constitution, writes David Jardine Burma's brutal ruling military...
Mohamed Al-Daradji’s film Ahlaam (Dreams) won the Index on Censorship Film Award last Monday. He was interviewed by the BBC World Service's World Today about the award and the film. Click below to listen. Mohamed Al-Daradji interview
Francisco Goldman accepts the Index on Censorship TR Fyvel Book Award for his work, The Art of Political Murder: Who killed Bishop Gerardi?. The culmination of years of investigative journalism, The Art of the Political Murder is an astonishing...
Wikileaks and journalist Arat Dink was honoured by Index on Censorship at a ceremony in London last night. Dink was awarded the prestigious Guardian Journalism Award, which recognises determined and brave journalism that often represents a...
Choosing which film should win the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression award was a tough process for the judges, writes Lemn Sissay I've been led down the winding stairs into a gloomy room in the basement of an east London office block. It's...
Journalist Shiv Malik has been granted leave to appeal against a production order served on him by police. Malik, who specialises in writing on Islamist extremism and terrorism, was ordered by Greater Manchester Police Counter Terrorism Unit to...