В Украине за период с 1 февраля по 30 июня было зарегистрировано 16 инцидентов, в которых журналисты подвергались физическим нападениям, и 17 случаев, когда на представителей СМИ не только напали, но и повредили им аппаратуру. Об этом сообщает...
The latest reports from Index’s monitoring project detail physical violence against journalsits in Russia, Turkey and Ukraine
Maltese journalists need to know the authorities and the government “can, and will, protect them”, Barrister Caoilfhionn Gallagher of Doughty Street Chambers said at Press Freedom Summit held in Scotland last week where she stressed the need for.an...
Human rights and freedom of expression organisations have condemned a judicial ruling made by a Turkish court in the second hearing of the Gezi Park trial.
This public symposium will reflect on the paradox of creative constraints in contemporary cinema from the Middle East
In a letter to the new President of the European Commission, a coalition of international press freedom organisations stressed the need to “ensure that media freedom, the protection of journalists, and EU citizens’ access to information are top...
The editor of the Observer has joined with press freedom campaigners to call for “robust” action against the use of lawsuits to “silence and intimidate” journalism in the public interest. Read the full article.
Twenty press freedom organisations have written to the new president of the European Commission to urge that media freedom is made a top priority.
The businessman Arron Banks and the unofficial Brexit campaign Leave.EU have issued a legal threat against streaming giant Netflix in relation to The Great Hack, a new documentary about the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the abuse of personal...
Following the recent global conference on media freedom held in London by the UK government, we write to draw your attention to what appears to be a growing trend to use strategic litigation against public participation (“SLAPP”) lawsuits as a...
This week, Index’s CEO Jodie Ginsberg appeared in The Telegraph and on the British Library’s podcast
Artist and activist Zehra Doğan, who was recently incarcerated in Turkey for painting the destruction of a Kurdish city by the military, was detained in Berlin along with several collaborators on Saturday, July 13 for participating in an...