Art has traditionally accompanied political and social movements in Latin America and the turn of the 21st century has seen a resurgence of diverse forms of expression
Bahraini authorities this week released opposition activist Zainab al-Khawaja, who had been imprisoned with her infant son since March but continues to use arbitrary arrest and imprisonment to silence its critics.
Organisations and individuals from across the world took to the streets to celebrate the investigative journalist’s birthday and call for the release of all political prisoners in Azerbaijan
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout the European
Khadija Ismayilova, one of Azerbaijan’s most celebrated journalists, will be given the opportunity to appeal against the decision by the Baku Court of Appeal to imprison her
Attempts to control social media activity have been rife since Facebook and Twitter launched in 2006. We are outraged when political leaders ban access to social
April 2016 was the busiest month for Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom since the project began in May 2014
On 7 April 2016, Bahrain’s foreign minister told the US State Department activist Zainab Al-Khawaja would be freed
Malaysian cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Haque, aka Zunar, has won the 2016 Cartooning for Peace Prize. The award was presented at a ceremony at the Palais Eynard in Geneva
When we read about displaced people in the press, we usually hear about Syrian refugees fleeing IS or the one person per second displaced by natural disaster
The case against Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli, who previously faced charges of hooliganism after being detained at Baku Haydar Aliyev International Airport on 30 March
A Polish prosecutor has interrogated Jan Gross, a Polish-American professor of history at Princeton University