Award-winning investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova was detained on 5 December 2014.
Azerbaijan: Anniversary of journalist’s arrest highlights unprecedented repression in 2015
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CATEGORY: Campaigns
President Erdogan: Free Cumhuriyet’s editors and all other detained journalists
Media freedom NGOs and unions, reject the blatant erosion of media freedom in Turkey.
Turkey: Index condemns killing of lawyer during press conference
Index on Censorship condemns the killing of Turkish human rights lawyer Tahir Elci, who was shot during a press conference on Saturday.
Azerbaijan: Human rights lawyer spends second birthday in prison
Index on Censorship calls on Azerbaijan to release human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev
Joint statement on death sentence of Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh
Index on Censorship condemns the decision by Saudi authorities to sentence Ashraf Fayadh to death on charges of apostasy
NGOs condemn imprisonment and nationality revocation of photographer
Award-winning photographer Sayed Ahmed al-Mousawi was sentenced to 10 years in prison and had his nationality revoked, along with 12 others, after covering a series of demonstrations in early 2014.
Syria: Fears for life of free expression advocate Bassel Khartabil
Bassel Khartabil, a defender of freedom expression being held in conditions amounting to enforced disappearance, may be facing a death sentence
Free expression groups call on Turkey to release Mohammed Ismael Rasool
Free expression organisations call for the immediate and unconditional release of Mohammed Ismael Rasool, a fixer for VICE News.
Syria: No word on Bassel Khartabil’s whereabouts
Unconfirmed reports are circulating that Khartabil has been secretly sentenced to death by the Syrian government. We ask the Syrian authorities to reveal Khartabil’s whereabouts and release him immediately and unconditionally.
Student reading lists: Music and censorship
To mark the launch of the Music In Exile Fund, Index on Censorship has compiled a reading list of articles that have appeared in the magazine since 1982 and deal with censorship and music
Petitions, letters, and press releases from Index on Censorship