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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Why we should be worried about relinquishing our privacy to a secret state
Edward Snowden’s lawyer Ben Winzer talks to Index about his client and what the loss of privacy to the secret state means to the future of free expression.
Azerbaijan: Support jailed journalists and human rights defenders
Azerbaijan’s government continues to repress civil society activists, human rights defenders and journalists. Many of them are now behind bars on trumped up charges, but in fact they were arrested for their human rights activities
John Crace on the Magna Carta: 1215 and all that
In his own inimitable short-form style, John Crace takes a tongue-in-cheek trip throughout the history of the Magna Carta and its manifestations.
Leading independent news sites blocked in Belarus
Belarusian authorities attempt to hide a financial crisis by silencing critical voices in a new clampdown on media.
Bulgaria: Murky ownership, censorship and corruption in the media
Murky ownership, a whole array of censorship practices as well as corruption are plaguing the Bulgarian media, according to a survey recently carried out by the Bulgarian Reporter foundation
Padraig Reidy: The paranoid style in Turkish politics
What’s wrong with Turkey? Or, more to the point what is wrong with Turkey’s president that makes him so determined to fight, like a two a.m. drunk vowing to take on all comers?
Şanar Yurdatapan: “The censorship and oppression on culture and arts is still going on”
Winner of the 2002 Index award for Circumvention of Censorship, Şanar Yurdatapan talks to Index about artistic censorship
Turkey: Government detains journalists
On Sunday, December 14, at least 27 people were detained by Turkish police, including journalists, producers and directors of TV shows and police officers. Arrest warrants were issued for at least 31.
Exploring artistic freedom in Wales and beyond
Index on Censorship has been exploring artistic freedom of expression and contemporary forms of censorship in the UK. Who or what controls what is sayable in the arts? Who has a voice in the arts? Do the answers vary as we move around the different member nations of the UK?