For his one-man protests, Ildar Dadin was sent to prison where he was tortured, before his conviction was quashed in February 2017
#IndexAwards2017: Ildar Dadin courageously defends the right to protest in Russia
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Semih Poroy: Life under emergency rule
A cartoonist for the daily Cumhuriyet shares his take on life in Turkey under emergency rule.
Belarus: Civic solidarity movement condemns mass detentions and police violence
Index on Censorship joins with the Civic Solidarity Platform to condemn Belarus’ crackdown on peaceful protesters.
Belarus: Crackdown sweeping journalists and human rights defenders into detention
Hundreds of protests were detained during a weekend of anti-government protests in Belarus.
Memnune Mayda: “Our only child is definitely not a traitor”
The mother of Özkan Mayda, a Turkish photojournalist for the Zaman daily, shares her son’s story.
Weakening encryption would harm journalists
Encrypted communication tools are used by investigative journalists and reporters under fire, as well as businesses and governments, to have safe conversations and to report on difficult and often dangerous situations. Attempts by the UK government...
Belarus must immediately free and drop all charges against protesters
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Index on Censorship condemns the continued crackdown on protesters in Europe's last dictatorship. Belarusian authorities detained about 400 people over the weekend as Freedom Day demonstrations against the...
Belarus: Wave of detentions must end
Organisations have written to the president of Belarus to demand an end to recent wave of detentions of journalists, activists and opposition figures.
Semih Poroy: Turkey’s place in the world
A cartoonist for the daily Cumhuriyet shares his take on Turkey on the international stage.
Ece Temelkuran: What will become of Erdogan’s little clones when he’s gone?
A country’s leadership sets the tone, but can also penetrate the very fabric of the public’s existence igniting a metamorphosis that creates political clones