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.
The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), English PEN and Index on Censorship gathered outside the Bahrain Embassy in London on Wednesday 29 July 2015 to protest the ongoing detention of Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace.
Dozens of internationally recognised journalists, free expression activists and writers have signed a letter supporting Ali Lmrabet, a Moroccan journalist who is on hunger strike in Geneva
Free expression is not a “nice-to-have” add-on, a mere luxury principle tacked on the end of other more basic rights
The public space should be accessible to cultural actors, artists and organisations representing civil society and should be free of constraints
Index on Censorship and 27 other organisations call for the investigation into his case to be urgently raised to the federal level
Ideas and opinions need to be exposed to open debate — not driven underground
Rafael Marques de Morais was last week given a suspended sentence following a criminal defamation trial related to his 2011 book on blood diamonds, published for the first time in English on June 2
Statements from freedom of expression organisation Index on Censorship, the global voice of free expression