Every so often (roughly generationally) there are upheavals in mores and language. We’re on that cusp now.
Padraig Reidy: Just another old man yelling at a cloud?
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
13 governments that are definitely not jailing people over free speech
Just look at these definitely-not-free-speech-related charges journalists and activists and human rights lawyers and pro democracy campaigners face
Azerbaijan must allow free reporting at European Games
On the eve of the opening ceremony, foreign journalists and rights activists have been banned from reporting on the Baku Games. Index on Censorship calls on Azerbaijan to allow civil society groups and journalists from at home and abroad to report freely
Ten times the Azerbaijani president told us how much he loves press freedom
Don’t be fooled by the fact that journalists in Azerbaijan have been jailed, beaten, killed, and forced into hiding and exile, and their foreign colleagues banned from entering the country: Ilham Aliyev is all about media freedom
Padraig Reidy: When Putin met the Pope
What might have happened when the leader of the world’s largest state met the leader of the world’s smallest?
Amnesty, Platform banned from entering Azerbaijan on the eve of European Games
Both organisations have been highly critical of President Ilham Aliyev’s government, and its targeting, jailing and prosecution of activists and journalists
Baku 2015: The foreign manpower behind Azerbaijan’s games
Despite the ongoing government crackdown on investigative journalists and human rights activists in Azerbaijan, foreign manpower has played a significant role in making Baku 2015 a reality
Padraig Reidy: Denis O’Brien, parliamentary privilege and the public interest
Irish billionaire Denis O’Brien got on an injunction on the reporting of a speech in parliament regarding his private banking relationships
12 June: #RealBaku2015: Free political prisoners in Azerbaijan
On the day of the Baku European Games opening ceremony, join Index on Censorship, Sport for Rights, Amnesty International UK, Article 19 and Platform for a demonstration calling for an end to the human rights crackdown in Azerbaijan
Padraig Reidy: We cannot choose which free speech we will defend and which we will not
If we are to imagine free speech as a defining value of democracy (as David Cameron has said he does) then we cannot just choose which free speech we will defend and which we will not (as David Cameron has said he wants to)