Index condemns decision by Turkish prosecutors to charge Yavuz Baydar for “insulting” Turkish president
Award-winning Turkish journalist charged with ‘insulting’ Turkey’s President
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Turkey releases two Vice News journalists, must free third
The release of Vice News journalists Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, who are British, is welcome news. However, Mohammed Ismael Rasool, an Iraqi colleague who had been acting as a translator and fixer, remains in detention.
Free expression groups welcome release of Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury
English PEN, PEN American Center, PEN International and Index on Censorship are relieved that VICE News journalists Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury have been released after six days in detention
Student reading lists: threats to academic freedom
To tie in with the release of Index’s summer 2015 issue on academic freedom, Index put together a reading list of articles looking at the issues surrounding freedom of speech in universities from all over the world.
Jodie Ginsberg: Terror laws are used to “stifle” media
The UK government should look to what is happening to free expression in Egypt and Turkey before broadening terrorist laws to include those who “spread hate”.
UK Foreign Office issues statement on arrests
Freedom of expression charities have written to UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond urging the UK to speak out publicly in defence of freedom of expression following the arrest of two British journalists in Turkey under terror legislation.
Azerbaijan: Sport for Rights coalition condemns sentencing of journalist Khadija Ismayilova
The Sport for Rights coalition strongly condemns the sentencing of Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova to a staggering 7.5 years in jail.
Suffocating free expression: Azerbaijani journalist faces 7 years and 6 months in prison
Index on Censorship condemns the sentencing of Khadija Ismayilova
Journalism is not a crime – Turkey must release charged Vice journalists
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”.
Release prisoner of conscience Dr Abduljalil al-Singace as hunger strike reaches 160th day
Forty-one international NGOs call on the Bahraini authorities to release Dr Abduljalil al-Singace and all prisoners of conscience in Bahrain.
Petitions, letters, and press releases from Index on Censorship