A St Petersburg judge has postponed a hearing faced by chairman of the Russian LGBT Network and an independent attorney under the city's new anti-gay censorship law, as papers relating to the charge were found to be missing. The hearing, originally...
Two activists climbed to the roof of the Bahrain embassy in London yesterday. Prominent opposition activist Ali Mushaima was joined by Moosa Abdali to protest human rights violations in Bahrain, ahead of this weekend's controversial Grand Prix....
Alisher Karamatov, a member of teh Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan, was released from prison on 13 April, having served almost six years of a nine-year sentence. Karamatov was found guilty of extortion and imprisoned in 2006, but independent...
– Index on Censorship welcomes release of leading opposition figure in Europe’s last dictatorship
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A man from County Antrim, Northern Ireland, was fined £250 for writing "Kill all Taigs" --- a pejorative term for Catholics --- and "Fuck The Pope" on social networking site Facebook on his 21st birthday last August. Dean Boyd admitted to police...
Ex-mayoral opposition candidate Oleg Shein is continuing his 29-day hunger strike protesting against local mayoral election results. Held the same day as presidential elections, they were allegedly no less fraudulent. United Russia's candidate...
This is a crosspost from the Media Legal Defence Initiative On the eve of the Eurovision song contest, Azeri journalists have complained to the European Court of Human Rights about the president's stranglehold over the country's broadcasting...
Activists in Minsk have been arrested for laying flowers and detained by police at Kastrychnitskaya metro station during a ceremony to open a memorial sign “River of Memory” near the station entrance. They were then taken to the Leninski district...
How does lobbying in the UK affect international free speech? Index on Censorship’s Head of Advocacy
Michael Harris explains
Journalists and photographers gathered near the Uzbekistan embassy in Moscow to protest against the deportation of their colleague Victoria Ivleva and Uzbekistan authorities’ policy towards foreign journalists. Ivleva, a photojournalist for Novaya...