Illiberal forces are bankrolling attacks on free speech – it’s time to stop them
Orbán’s defeat should spell the end of foreign interference in European democracies
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Hungary: The signs that heralded Péter Magyar’s landslide
A journalist reveals the indications that things were changing after 16 years of rule by Viktor Orbán
Gone are the days when Tbilisi was safe for journalists escaping persecution
The arrest and deportation of journalist Afgan Sadigov demonstrate the peril faced by at-risk journalists
Hungary leads the far-right charge on free speech
Index looks at the Viktor Orbán-funded institute bringing together far-right leaders across Europe
Why doesn’t the UK stand up for its overseas detainees?
Our fears the British government will abandon Brits jailed in Dubai for exercising free speech
Serbian authorities must stop the spiral of violence against journalists
Media freedom in Serbia remains trapped in a downward spiral amidst record levels of physical violence against journalists, death threats and online smear campaigns, alarming levels of impunity, and tight political control over the media landscape, a coalition of media freedom organisations concluded
Smearing, harassing, criminalising and killing is no longer the exception for journalists
Read below former Index CEO and now the chief executive of the Committee to Project Journalists Jodie Ginsberg’s powerful James Cameron Memorial Lecture delivered before the targeted killing this week by Israeli forces of a three-strong Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese television crew
Greater Manchester school library censorship: who is accountable?
Now that Lowry Academy has been publicly named, Index has written a follow-up to last week’s book banning story
Throwing free expression to the wolves is not the way to protect kids
Beware regimes which use “child protection” as a way to censor
Kosovo: Council of Europe platform partners conduct fact-finding mission on media freedom
A delegation will meet Prime Minister Albin Kurti as well as editors and journalists, the parliamentary media committee, judicial authorities and regulatory bodies