Polish heavy metal singer Adam Darski, AKA Nergal, could face two years in prison for tearing a bible on stage. Nergal, singer with Behemoth, performed the stunt in 2007, before descrbing the Catholic church as ""the most murderous cult on the...
Mikhail Afanasyev is a veteran of the libel courts. As one of the few independent journalists in Russia’s Urals he has faced 13 defamation suits in 15 years, and won every one. Afanasyev edits an online newspaper, New Focus, and reports to Glasnost...
The arrest of editor Kostas Vaxevanis for exposing Swiss bank account holders is just the latest attack on free speech in Greece. Democracy itself is in danger, say Asteris Masouras and Veroniki Krikoni
Andrei Sannikov, a former political prisoner from Belarus, has been granted asylum in the UK. Sannikov told the Charter97 website: It was not a simple decision for me. But I had no other choice --- other options were to be tortured and humiliated...
MOSCOW. 29 October 2012 (INDEX). Earlier this month a Moscow court freed Ekaterina Samutsevich, one of three imprisoned women from Russian punk band Pussy Riot but upheld the two-year jail term handed down to her bandmates. Samutsevich, Maria...
Ekaterina Samutsevich told Index on Censorship’s Russia correspondent that Pussy Riot is here to stay.
One hundred protesters were arrested today by security forces in Baku, Azerbaijan's capital. The organisers of the protest decided to make their way to Baku's Fountain Square to call for the dissolution of parliament, even though the country's...
Index on Censorship joined more than 40 global media organisations signing a declaration to demand action from governments, the United Nations and industry to take action against violence towards journalists.
In July the Russian parliament approved a bill designed to increase the Kremlin's control of the internet. The new laws grant the government sweeping powers to block access to internet resources. Russian Wikipedia blacked out to protest the law...
Azerbaijan's corrupt ruling family, led by President Ilham Aliyev, has stayed in power by crushing dissent — curtailing freedom of assembly, association, and expression. A leaked US diplomatic cable compared the Aliyev’s to the Corleones, the Mafia...