Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate and writer Liu Xiaobo, who was imprisoned since 2009 for calling for more freedom in his country, has been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer
Index condemns the arrest of Idil Eser, director of Amnesty International Turkey, and demands her immediate and unconditional release
Organisations and individuals from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the USA sent letters to their respective governments insisting that they defend strong encryption
Index on Censorship joins an international coalition calling on the government of the United Arab Emirates to free Ahmed Mansoor.
The Angolan government should immediately drop all charges against journalist and human rights activist Rafael Marques de Morais, winner of Index on Censorship’s Freedom of Expression Award and Fellowship in 2015.
The call by four Arab states — UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Egypt — for Qatar to close news network Al Jazeera is clearly motivated by a desire to control the media in the region.
Index on Censorship has joined with international organisations to urge Formula 1 to address restrictions on peaceful protesters and journalists in Bahrain.
Index on Censorship has joined with seven other organisations to urge OSCE to appoint a new representative on freedom of the media
Index on Censorship calls on Russian authorities to drop all charges against demonstrators and journalists
Increasingly, governments are devolving responsibility for determining what constitutes unacceptable content to private companies.
Statements from freedom of expression organisation Index on Censorship, the global voice of free expression