Once the biggest media trial in Turkey, the KCK press trial hardly makes the news today, even though it set a grim precedent for the criminalisation of journalistic activities in the country
Since January 2016 the Academics for Peace case has become one of the symbols of the crackdown on democracy in Turkey.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout the European Union and neighbouring countries. Serious threats verified by the...
Journalists who dare to investigate powerful people or companies are facing increasingly expensive legal threats to stop them publishing
Index on Censorship joined a letter calling for PACE to appoint a Special Rapporteur to monitor the investigation into the murder of a Maltese journalist.
We, members of the Civic Solidarity Platform (CSP), are deeply concerned at reports of the arrest of Oyub Titiev, head of Human Rights Center Memorial’s Grozny office in Chechnya on highly dubious narcotics charges. We call for his immediate and...
In 2017 Mapping Media Freedom, Index on Censorship’s project for monitoring media violations throughout Europe, registered 15 reports relating to Echo Moskvy.
Commercial interference pressures on the UK’s regional papers are growing. Some worry that jeopardises their independence.
“Europe’s last dictatorship” doesn’t tolerate dissent. The country’s constitution claims to protect freedom of the press, but many laws seem to contradict this.
Several journalists and news outlets from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina faced death threats following their coverage a war crimes trial