Index on Censorship welcomes the release of Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist Mehman Huseynov.
Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist Mehman Huseynov released from prison
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This week at Index: Kurdish artist and journalist Zehra Doğan released from prison
Index on Censorship welcomes the release of 2019 Freedom of Expression Arts Award nominee Zehra Doğan
Jodie Ginsberg on Uganda trying to censor its musicians and filmmakers (The World Tonight, BBC World Service, 26 February 2019)
Uganda’s government is proposing regulations that will affect all artists in the country. These include vetting new songs, videos and film scripts, prior to their release. Musicians, producers, promoters, filmmakers and all other artists...
Indonesia’s overly restrictive Music Bill must be withdrawn
Index urges proposed legislation that would restrict artistic freedom be discarded
Threat of arrest must be dropped for Egyptian women’s rights defender Amal Fathy
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Index on Censorship, the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) and counsel at Doughty Street Chambers have filed further information at the request of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention...
Kurdish artist Zehra Doğan released from Turkish prison
Index on Censorship welcomes the release of 2019 Freedom of Expression Arts Award nominee
This week at Index: 45 years of Index magazine archive now free
For the first time, the archive of Index magazine are open to the public without a subcription.
Decades of articles by world’s leading writers now free as Index on Censorship magazine archive becomes available without subscription
Index on Censorship is pleased to announce that the online archive of 45 years of publications of Index on Censorship magazine, published by SAGE Publishing, will be free to read globally.
Farcical indictment shows how far Turkey has fallen
Index on Censorship condemns a criminal indictment sent to a Turkish court against 16 civil society leaders including artist Meltem Arikan, actors Memet Ali Alabora and Pinar Ogun, and journalist Can Dündar.
Press freedom groups demand answers from Slovak authorities over failure to stop killing of investigative journalist (Press Gazette, 20 February 2019)
Press freedom groups and journalist organisations have pushed Slovak authorities to look into state failures to stop the murder of investigative reporter Jan Kuciak on the anniversary of his death one year ago. Ten groups, including Reporter...
Daphne Caruana Galizia’s death marked new trend – report (The Shift, 27 January 2019)
There is a distinct lack of awareness among decision makers about how bad the situation is for journalists reporting on corruption, according to Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project that monitors violations against media...
Slovakia must deliver justice and accountability in murder of journalist Jan Kuciak
Thursday 21 February 2019 will commemorate a full year since the assassination of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová in Slovakia. Kuciak was investigating cross-border corruption and links between powerful people and various mafia networks.