Index on Censorship calls on Turkey to release two Vice journalists and a local colleague who have been formally charged with “working on behalf of a terrorist organisation”.
Bahraini prisoner of conscience Dr Abduljalil al-Singace today hits a milestone 160 days of hunger strike as rights organisations appeal for his freedom. Forty-one international NGOs today released an urgent appeal addressed to the Government of...
Forty-one international NGOs call on the Bahraini authorities to release Dr Abduljalil al-Singace and all prisoners of conscience in Bahrain.
Index on Censorship joined English PEN in a letter calling for transparency around the cancellation of the National Youth Theatre production of Homegrown
Index on Censorship joins rights groups in condemning the conviction and harsh sentencing of human rights defenders Leyla and Arif Yunus.
Index on Censorship calls on the National Youth Theatre to publicly disclose its dealings with police and council officials in the lead-up to the cancellation of Homegrown.
Index on Censorship strongly condemns the sentencing of Leyla and Arif Yunus to 8.5 and 7 years in prison, respectively. The ongoing and capricious judicial harassment of Azerbaijan’s civil society by the government of President Ilham Aliyev has reached a new low.
Index on Censorship deplores the killing of blogger Niloy Chakrabarti in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and calls on the authorities to investigate the murder and ensure that those responsible are found and brought to justice.
The investigation against Netzpolitik.org for treason and their unknown sources is an attack against the free press.
It is very worrying that a theatre production about an important subject and one that young people need to be able to discuss and debate should be closed down.
Statements from freedom of expression organisation Index on Censorship, the global voice of free expression