Statements by Index on Censorship Global voice of free expression

Release artist and writer Ramón Esono Ebalé

by Index on Censorship | 16 Nov 2017

Index on Censorship has joined with 18 other parties to call on the president of Equatorial Guinea to release cartoonist Ramón Esono Ebalé.

Groups hold London vigil for murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia

by Index on Censorship | 3 Nov 2017

Free expression advocates marked the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists by honouring the courage of Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Bahrain: UK-based rights activist’s family sentenced to three years in reprisal case

by Index on Censorship | 30 Oct 2017

The Bahraini authorities on Monday 30 October sentenced the mother-in-law, Hajer Mansoor Hasan, and brother-in-law, Sayed Nizar Alwadaei, of UK-based human rights defender Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei to three years in prison in reprisal for his work.

Azerbaijan: Open letter to EU ahead of Aliyev’s Brussels visit

by Index on Censorship | 28 Oct 2017

NGOs urge the EU member state heads and leaders to use the summit to call on president Aliyev to end the current human rights crackdown in Azerbaijan

Free expression organisations intervene on cases of detained Turkish journalists

by Index on Censorship | 27 Oct 2017

Index on Censorship joins free expression organisations intervening before the European Court of Human Rights on cases of detained journalists in Turkey

Bahraini Injustice: Nabeel Rajab subjected to humiliating treatment

by Index on Censorship | 26 Oct 2017

Bahraini authorities transferred human rights defender Nabeel Rajab from a clinic to the notorious Jau Prison despite severe medical risks, subjecting him to humiliating treatment on arrival.

Bahrain’s reprisals against activist’s family must end

by Index on Censorship | 26 Oct 2017

Index joins with international organisations to demand that nations urgently raise the case of Sayed Nazar Alwadaei, Hajar Mansoor Hasan and Mahmood Marzooq Mansoor with the Government of Bahrain.