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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Co-chairs of UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition welcome Government’s action on SLAPPs
Dominic Raab to announce legislative measures that includes recommendations from coalition co-led by Index on Censorship
A new chance to protect freedom of expression online
“Unintended consequences”, “ideologically incoherent”, “won’t change culture or make us safer”. I have written all these words and many more about the British Government’s Online Safety Bill. Index on Censorship has spent the last eighteen months...
A memorial for the man who told the world about the Babyn Yar massacre
Anatoly Kuznetsov is the author of Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel. His memoir is a masterpiece of Ukrainian literature and a testament to the 30,000 Jews massacred at Babyn Yar (the Ukrainian spelling), Kyiv in September 1941. Today it...
Joint statement on the introduction of charges for media coverage of party conferences
Political parties introduce charges for journalists’ access to conferences. Alliance of media and free speech organisations warns any charges will restrict open democracy
Belarus: Andrei Aliaksandrau writes of his “travels”
Our former colleague writes from prison as his trial is suspended for two months
Kurdish journalists arrested as Turkey flexes its muscles
Journalists in Turkey are once again being targeted in one of the country’s largest Kurdish-majority cities, explains a director from the Media and Law Studies Association
An unwelcome return to the 1970s
Protests for women’s rights, widespread strikes, rampant inflation. Have we turned the clock back fifty years?
Lukashenka’s justice on show
As Andrei Aliaksandrau and his fiance face treason charges, another activist shares her own experiences of Belarus’ court system
All eyes on “one of the safest countries in the world”
As Commonwealth leaders meet in Rwanda, few believe Boris Johnson’s assessment of the country. Index speaks with the adopted daughters of Hotel Rwanda’s Paul Rusesabagina, the jailed critic of President Kagame