Aleksandr Bastrykin Head of the Investigative Committee of Russian Federation The Investigative Committee of Russian Federation 105005, Russia, Moscow, Technicheskii Lane, 2 Sunday 2 November 2014 Dear Mr Bastrykin, RE: Request for investigation...
CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia

Recap report: Index gets censored in Wigan
Index held a successful workshop with the north west contingent of the British Youth Council, despite the inability to access our own website because of internet filtering at the location. Index held a third Draw the Line workshop with the British...

Life is getting harder for objective journalists in Turkey, says cartoonist sued by Erdogan
Musa Kart faced nine year behind bars over a caricature of the Turkish president

Padraig Reidy: Sympathy for the devil
The very personification of evil is invoked more often than not by those who wish to see his hand in simple things they do not like or do not understand

Serbian prime minister grilled on press freedom at London event
Controversy surrounded Aleksandar Vucic’s Monday night lecture at the London School of Economics

Azerbaijan crackdown continues with new arrest and activist deprived of lawyer
Journalist from opposition newspaper Azadliq sentenced to 25 days of administrative detention, as jailed activist says she has been denied access to her lawyer

Recap report: Draw the Line workshop with Ovalhouse Young Associates
Index on Censorship held its latest Draw the Line workshop at Ovalhouse theatre in south London

Hungarians take to the streets to protest “internet tax”
Barring a u-turn from the Hungarian government, demonstrators will return to the streets of Budapest this afternoon to oppose Prime Minster Viktor Orban’s plans to tax the internet

Erdogan cartoons: how artists responded to case against a Turkish colleague
When political cartoonist Musa Kart faced nine years in prison for “insulting” President Erdogan, his colleagues from around the world showed solidarity through their own caricatures

The future of journalism: “the world is going to be less informed”
There was a lively debate about whether future journalism will make the public more informed at the launch of the latest Index on Censorship magazine at the Frontline Club