A Polish prosecutor has interrogated Jan Gross, a Polish-American professor of history at Princeton University
Poland: Scholar questioned over claim Poles killed more Jews than they did Germans during World War II
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
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
“No one – and especially heads of state – has a right not to be offended”
Index deplores the decision by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to authorise the prosecution of a German comedian for offending the President of Turkey.
Croatia: Controversial TV show prompts dispute in national media
Walking around the Zagreb offices of the Electronic Media Council (AEM), Croatia’s broadcast regulator, must have had a distinctive feel to it on 26 January. According to Croatian media, outside the building stood about 5,000 demonstrators singing...
Worst countries for restrictions on religious freedom
Some of the worst countries for religious freedom are Burma, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, China, Eritrea, Iran
Italy: Reform could introduce fines for needless defamation suits against journalists
Recommendations approved by the Italian chamber of deputies could offer more protection to journalists.
#IndexAwards2016: Ferit Tunç uses inventive methods to challenge censorship in Turkey
Turkish journalist Ferit Tunç quit his advertising job in 2013 to found the newspaper Yön Gazetesi, covering the Kurdish Batman province of Turkey
Serbia: “Pro-regime” paper targets Crime and Corruption Reporting Network
Mapping Media Freedom correspondent Mitra Nazar details an ongoing smear campaign aimed at discrediting investigative journalists and casting doubt on the corruption they uncover
Azeri writer Akram Aylisli releases speech he was due to give at Italian festival
The Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli, who has written about massacres of Armenians, was prevented from travelling to an Italian literary festival last week