Index on Censorship condemns the clearly political sentencing of Can Dündar and Erdem Gül
Truth and the public interest are forbidden in Turkey
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Bahrain: “Release Zainab Al-Khawaja with no further delay”
On 7 April 2016, Bahrain’s foreign minister told the US State Department activist Zainab Al-Khawaja would be freed
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
Why is academic freedom important?
Academic freedom has been the subject of many debates in recent months. With speakers regularly being no-platformed
Dunja Mijatović: Chronicling infringements on internet freedom is a necessary task
As the OSCE Representative on Freedom of Media, I believe that the rights afforded to producers and consumers of traditional media equally apply to new media platforms as well
Azerbaijan: Harassment of Meydan TV must stop
Index on Censorship strongly condemns the launch of a criminal investigation into online media outlet Meydan TV.
Poland: Scholar questioned over claim Poles killed more Jews than they did Germans during World War II
A Polish prosecutor has interrogated Jan Gross, a Polish-American professor of history at Princeton University
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
Petitions, letters, and press releases from Index on Censorship