Dutch MEP Marietje Schaake has launched a campaign that aims to stop European businesses selling surveillance equipment to authoritarian regimes. In an email, Schaake explained: "It is unacceptable that EU made technologies are still exported,...
A response to the Media Standards Trust’s Martin Moore
An obscure 16 page-long French far-right magazine recently put France’s black justice minister Christiane Taubira on its cover, comparing her to a monkey. Valeria Costa-Kostritsky reports on the fallout
On the eve of the International Day To End Impunity, we look back at the journalists intimidated, attacked and killed in 2013
Andrei Soldatov looks at the websites authorities have been censoring over the past months
Former Soviet countries use the vague charge to crack down on protest and dissent, Padraig Reidy writes
Qatar-based plaintiff refused to post security to London court. Padraig Reidy reports
Following the arrest of a journalist on espionage charges, the heads of Macedonia’s journalist association and trade union explain the decline of the country’s media freedom
In light of the recently passed Californian law allowing minors to delete any of their online activity, Index organised a Google Hangout in association with student newspapers York Vision and The Student Journals, on whether young people should...
This week saw some movement in the debate over NSA and GCHQ surveillance, and a court case that could have very serious consequences. Padraig Reidy writes