Last week, Stephen Green of conservative religious group Christian Voice failed in his attempt to have the BBC charged with blasphemy for its broadcast of Jerry Springer The Opera. Stewart Lee, who devised the musical with composer Richard Thomas,...
The delicate balance of Malaysia's inter-ethnic politics has come under threat from an unexpected source and the response from the national government poses serious questions about freedom of expression. David Jardine reports The previously unknown...
The row over whether David Irving and Nick Griffin should speak at the Oxford Union is not an argument about freedom of speech, writes Padraig Reidy "Hello. I'm calling from Index on Censorship, and I'd like to come along to your Free Speech Forum...
Iranian intelligence is using new interrogation tactics on journalists reports Maziar Bahari who received an invitation to tea at an upmarket hotel I’m not supposed to tell you this but I met Mr Mohammadi. In fact I met three Mr Mohammadis in four...
Index on Censorship magazine asks journalists and reporters from across the Middle East to assess the media, censorship and the costs of being on the front line.
March 9 dawned with Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry presiding over his bench in the Supreme Court. He was informed that the president, who is also the chief of army staff, would like to see him. There has been much controversy over whether...
Ten people have been arrested in connection with the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. This was announced at a news conference given on August 27 by the General Prosecutor, Yuri Chaika. It was confirmed by the special investigator from the...
The Camp for Climate Action has come to an end. I expect it exceeded all the organisers’ expectations. It drew attention to climate change – and, in particular, to aviation’s contribution. But it succeeded in doing much more that. Some...
The former French colony of the Republic of Congo in West Africa is one of the world’s poorest countries, with 70 per cent of the population living on less that $1 a day. Although Congo has produced oil for more than three decades, its four million...
Environmental campaigners have responded angrily to what they have dubbed a ‘smear campaign’. A report in yesterday’s Evening Standard claimed that participants in the ‘Camp for Climate Action’ were planning to create security alerts at Heathrow...
Nepal has not had an easy recent history. The war between the Maoist Communist Party and government forces lasted ten years, from 1996 until 2006, when Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and Maoist leader Prachanda signed a deal allowing the...
Jailed Tunisian dissident, writer and lawyer Mohamed Abbou was released from prison in Le Kef, where he had been held since his arrest in March 2005. He was sentenced to prison for three-and-a-half years for exposing torture in Tunisian prisons on...