A Wikipedia page showing an image of an album cover by German heavy metal band The Scorpions has been blocked following allegations of potential illegality. The Internet Watch Foundation has said the image, which shows a naked pre-pubescent girl,...
We are delighted that Belarus Free Theatre (BFT) nominated by Index for the ArtVenture Freedom to Create prize wre runners up in the main prize category of the inaugural awards. Tom Stoppard, a long-time supporter of the theatre company, handed...
Internet filtering, no matter how modern, serves the same purposes as censorship always has, says Egbert Dommering Filtering is the latest form of censorship. By filtering we mean the technical blockages of the free flow of information across the...
The independent Tunisian online magazine Kalima has suffered an attack that has completely destroyed its web content, and in a separate but related incident, its editor – Index Award winner Sihem Bensedrine – has been abused by police in the street.
The furore over Michael Reiss’s comments on creationism signify a worrying tendency that is bad for academic freedom and for science, says Steve Fuller On 16 September, Michael Reiss (pictured) resigned from his post as director of education at the...
Blogger and journalist Ziad El Heni last week filed a lawsuit against the Tunisian Internet Agency for blocking the social networking website Facebook. He sees the blocking, which took place on 18 August, as a violation of his rights to freedom of...
The establishment of an independent press council may help protect journalists and Internet activists like Raja Petra Kamaruddin, writes Daniel Chandranayagam Tan is a young Malaysian, newly employed in the private sector. Like many Malaysians his...
Magomed Yevloyev, owner of opposition Ingushetiya.ru webpage, was killed in Ingushetia yesterday soon after the police detained him in Margas airport. Yevloyev had flown in from Moscow on the same plane with the president of the region. On...
New laws on digital media in Thailand may strengthen the nation’s lese-majesty laws, writes David Jardine Swingeing new controls on the use of the Internet have just been introduced in Thailand. In what is claimed to be an effort to curtail cyber...
Websites will be subject to further restrictions under the country’s new media law, passed by President Lukashenko on 5 August. The law stipulates that online content will now be subject to the same restrictions as the print press. The law also...
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