the owner of the Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos, Serkis Seropyan, and its new editor, Aris Nalci, are facing prosecution over a 9 November article condemning sentences passed on their colleagues. The two were summoned by an Istanbul prosecutor and...
Dutch MP Geert Wilders has said he plans to release a film later this month that portrays the Quran as 'an inspiration for murder'. As the government expressed concern over repurcussions, Mr Wilders told a Ducth magazine: 'Now that everybody is...
Just before my last trip to Chechnya in mid-September my colleagues at Novaya gazeta began receiving threats and were told to pass on the message: I shouldn’t go to Chechnya any more, they said, because if I did my life would be in danger. As...
NGO Global Witness struck a blow against an attempt to use privacy laws to stifle investigation yesterday, when a London court blocked an attempt to curb its exposure of possible corruption in the Republic of Congo. The London-based group had been...
While British newspapers were harrumphing about the Australian government banning Aboriginals from accessing pornography, they signally failed to notice that one of the 19 new offences announced in New Labour’s 54th criminal justice bill since it...
What was initially billed as a celebration of the importance of religious and cultural tolerance and understanding turned into something a bit harder edged when the 56 nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) held a major conference in...
Anna Politkovskaya talks to Rohan Jayasekera of Index on Censorship
I have never been to Sarajevo, but I feel that I belong to it. There is a Sarajevo of the mind, an imagined Sarajevo whose present ruination and torment exiles us all