CATEGORY: Index in the Press

The British government has been condemned by press freedom groups for seizing an award-winning Syrian journalist’s travel documents upon her arrival at London’s Heathrow airport. Read the full article

An award-winning Syrian journalist who had her passport confiscated in the UK at the request of the Syrian Government says she fears she may not be reunited with her family if the document is returned to Damascus.  Read the full article

Killings, imprisonments and other methods to silence journalists happens all too often, in Europe as elsewhere in the world. In this editorial, the importance of being on the side of those who are threatened Read the full article

Free speech advocates have warned about new prosecuting guidelines which open the door to social media users being jailed for “offensive” and “sinister” posts. Experts from the Index on Censorship and English PEN both voiced unease that moves in...

Kaya Genç's Index on Censorship magazine piece runs in Fountain Ink. Artists in Turkey have been hiding their real identities with increasing frequency for more than a decade, creating innovative and subversive art works in the safety of anonymity....

Eurozine syndicates Andrey Arkhangelsky's Index on Censorship magazine piece. Ten years after the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, investigative journalism in Russia continues to be made impossible by the state. Having taken control of traditional...

It is 12 days since the British authorities confiscated the passport of the Syrian journalist, Zaina Erhaim, a prominent critic of Bashar al-Assad. And it is four days since press freedom and human rights groups launched a joint protest over a...

The Internet Governance in the Middle East and North Africa (iGmena) program held its first-ever Summit in Tunis, Tunisia, from 30 September and to 2 October. iGmena is an initiative of the Hague-based Humanistic Institute for Development (Hivos)...

Hilary Mantel has revealed how her childhood was marked by a reluctance to speak, in a provocative essay in which she urges writers that “if you don’t mean your words to breed consequences, don’t write at all”. Writing in the new issue of Index on...

British police have been criticised for refusing to release details of an international deal to train security officials from Bahrain, a country accused of a litany of human rights abuses. Read the full article