In the run-up to the annual conference and general meeting of the IAP in Beijing, China, the undersigned civil society organisations urge the IAP to live up to its vision
Index on Censorship calls on Spanish authorities to allow Turkish-Swedish journalist Hamza Yalçın to return to Sweden.
Index on Censorship calls on Thai authorities to unconditionally drop charges against Pravit Rojanaphruk.
Index on Censorship condemns the decision by the government of Israel to ban Al Jazeera from operating in the country.
Index on Censorship urges Turkish authorities to immediately release French journalist Loup Bureau and drop all charges against him.
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s silence on the sentencing of human rights figure Nabeel Rajab in Bahrain has been called “appalling” in a letter to the Foreign Secretary, signed by 13 rights groups & MPs on Sunday
The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy and Index on Censorship condemn Yusuf Al-Jamri’s torture, and the torture of all persons by Bahrain’s NSA.
Journalist Khudoberdi Nurmatov, who works for independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, is set to be deported back to Uzbekistan, where it is feared he will be tortured.
The family of Bassel Khartabil, a Syrian-Palestinian software engineer and free speech activist, confirmed that he had been subjected to an extrajudicial execution in October 2015.
Index on Censorship mourns the death of 2013 Freedom of Expression Digital Activism Award-winning Bassel Khartabil, who had been held Syrian prisons since 2012.
Statements from freedom of expression organisation Index on Censorship, the global voice of free expression