Powerful pictures show thousands gathering in Baku as crackdown on government critics continues
Azerbaijan: Protesters demand end to repression
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Azerbaijan: Journalist Arzu Geybulla threatened
Azerbaijani journalist Arzu Geybulla has been the subject of ongoing intimidation via social media
Padraig Reidy: We all seem to be grieving for newspapers
Put two British journalists in a room and talk will likely turn to the managed decline of the newspaper industry in western Europe and the US. Padraig Reidy will miss the news agents most.
Romania: Audiovisual Council paralysed in middle of election campaign
As Romania heads into its election season, its television and radio regulator languishes. Zoltan Sipos reports on the trouble ahead
Painting over the Clacton Banksy? Does nobody understand satire any more?
All it seems to take is for one person to think that something’s ‘racist’ …
Padraig Reidy: Our public conversation is in danger of becoming a public whinge
If arguments that counter our own prove more popular, it’s not because ours may need rethinking — no, it is because the world is biased against us
Hungary: Court legalises publishing unaltered photographs of police
Photographs revealing the identity of police officers can now legally be published in Hungary. A recent ruling of the Hungarian Constitutional Court means that news organisations can now publish unaltered photographs showing the faces of police...
Is press censorship in Serbia “worse than the 1990s”?
Six months after Aleksandar Vucic came to power, there are worrying signs that freedom of the media is deteriorating, Milana Knezevic writes
Hungary: Rapper and NGOs targeted by state crackdown
Hungarians working with “foreign intelligence” have been labelled “traitors” by the deputy prime minister. The comment follows a spate of cases of government censorship and intimidation over the past year. Aimee Hamilton reports
Open journalism: “The media landscape has changed irreversibly”
Index on Censorship reports back from the second Open Journalism expert panel, held in Vienna by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe.