Eight vigils will be held across the world today to mark six months since the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in a car bomb outside her home. Read the full article.
Vigil for Daphne Caruana Galizia in Brussels (CPJ, 15 April 2018)
The Committee to Protect Journalists, Il-Kenniesa, Reporters Without Borders, Transparency International, and European Federation of Journalists, are holding a vigil at the Schuman Roundabout - located between key EU institutions - to mark the 6th...
UN Amina J. Mohammed Meets Nigeria Oil Exec on SDGs, Heads to Qatar, Censors (Inner City Press, 13 April 2018)
UN Deputy Secretary General Amina J. Mohammed was in Abuja when her government illegally refouled 47 to Cameroon, where some face the death penalty. She said nothing at the time, and later issued a strange joint statement with her President Buhari,...
Freedom of Expression Awards (BBC, 12 April 2018)
Each year Index on Censorship honours activists who have been at the forefront of tackling censorship globally. Click hears from Jodie Ginsberg about some of nominees including creators of the Museum ofDissidence in Cuba. She is joined Guy Muyembe,...
#IndexAwards2018: Novosti weekly stands up for journalism
Novosti weekly is a Serbian-language magazine in Croatia that is run by journalists who are both Serbs and Croats and are some of the most highly esteemed reporters in the country.
Ealing’s “safe zones” could damage right to protest
Index on Censorship is deeply concerned that the adoption of a buffer zone around an abortion clinic in Ealing would set a dangerous precedent that could have far-reaching impacts on the right to protest and freedom of expression
#IndexAwards2018: MuckRock advocates for government transparency
The nonprofit, collaborative news site, MuckRock, is used by journalists, activists and members of the public to request, receive and share government documents from any agency that is subject to transparency laws in the United States, hoping to make policies more open to the public, and democracies further informed.
Protesters call for the release of Bahrain human rights defender seven years after his arrest
It has been seven years since Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, the Bahraini defender of human rights, was arrested. His daughters joined a protest outside the Bahrain Embassy calling for his release and shining a light on human rights violations in the country.
NCAC Joins 32 Organizations in Amicus Brief to Strike Down the Trump Administration’s Travel Ban (NCAC, 10 April 2018)
NCAC joins PEN America and 31 other prominent arts organizations to jointly file a friend of the court brief in the case of State of Hawaii v. Trump, urging the Supreme Court to strike down the third version of the Trump travel ban issued on...
#IndexAwards2018: Avispa Midia reports on Mexico’s atrocities with multimedia
Through pictures, videos, music and maps, the online magazine illustrates the violence permeating Mexico and Latin America.
DARE: Denver post rebels against its hedge-fund ownership (PEN America, 9 April 2018)
In extraordinary public appeal, Denver Post’s “News Matters” report on its own fate shows readers how far-away hedge fund investors demanding greater profits can decimate local information sources. Read the full article.
Scottish news publishers warn cost penalties in Data Protection Bill would be ‘extremely damaging’ to industry (Press Gazette, 9 April 2018)
Bringing curbs against the press, which peers have tried to tag on to the Data Protection Bill, would have dire consequences for the Scottish newspaper industry, MPs have been told. Read the full article.
