The Formula One Group leadership should urge the Azerbaijani government to release unjustly imprisoned activists and journalists ahead of the European Grand Prix
Azerbaijan: Free prisoners before Baku Grand Prix race
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CATEGORY: Statements
BBC appointments process must be clear and transparent
In restructuring the governance structure of the British Broadcasting Corporation, it is vital that the government ensures the corporation’s independence and role as a public broadcaster not a state broadcaster.
Truth and the public interest are forbidden in Turkey
Index on Censorship condemns the clearly political sentencing of Can Dündar and Erdem Gül
Azerbaijan: Independent media under unprecedented attack
The Sport for Rights coalition calls for the Azerbaijani authorities to take immediate and concrete steps to cease this persecution of the independent media, starting with the unconditional release of Khadija Ismayilova and Azerbaijan’s other political prisoners.
Letter: Eritrea must free imprisoned journalists
On World Press Freedom Day, Index Youth Advisory Board calls for the release of imprisoned journalists in Eritrea and urges the government to end its persecution of media workers
Azerbaijan: Harassment of Meydan TV must stop
Index on Censorship strongly condemns the launch of a criminal investigation into online media outlet Meydan TV.
Azerbaijan: Coalition of NGOs intervene before European Court for imprisoned journalist Khadija Ismayilova.
PEN International and Privacy International led 14 free expression and media freedom organisations, including Index on Censorship, in submitting an intervention today in the case of Azerbaijani journalist, Khadija Ismayilova before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
Azerbaijan: open letters to Pharrell Williams, Enrique Iglesias, and Chris Brown
We are writing to you as members of the Sport for Rights campaign, which has been working to raise human rights violations in Azerbaijan in the run-up to the Formula One European Grand Prix
“No one – and especially heads of state – has a right not to be offended”
Index deplores the decision by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to authorise the prosecution of a German comedian for offending the President of Turkey.
International groups call for immediate and unconditional release of Zainab Al-Khawaja
Index joins with international human rights groups to call on the government of Bahrain to release Zainab Al-Khawaja
Statements from freedom of expression organisation Index on Censorship, the global voice of free expression