A few days before the 2 April 2017 Serbian presidential elections, a picture was posted on Twitter that caused an unexpected storm
Serbia: Media freedom worsening as Serbs take to the streets
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Yavuz Baydar: Turkey’s crippled and tarnished journalism found space to breathe
With the hollowing out of the Turkish media landscape in recent years, honest coverage on the night of the historic referendum was rare
Turkey’s post-referendum freedom of expression
A guest panel shared their thoughts on President Erdogan, polarisation and free speech following the referendum result in Turkey
#IndexAwards2017: Journalists from the Maldives and Serbia describe attacks on press freedom
Thousands of miles separate the Maldives from Serbia, but Zaheena Rasheed and Stevan Dojcinovic describe similar attacks on press freedom at a panel discussion at London
Ramazan Ölçen: Kurdish journalist detained for working at Apê Musa’s newspaper
“Of course my family are worried,” says Ramazan Ölçen, who was detained for owning the copyrights to what was Turkey’s only Kurdish-language daily newspaper
#IndexAwards2017: Index announces Freedom of Expression Awards winners
A Chinese political cartoonist, a Russian rights activist, a crusading news organisation from Maldives and a digital collective from Turkey were the winners of the 2017 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards.
Ildar Dadin: “Together, we can refuse to look away”
The 2017 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Campaigning Award winning Ildar Dadin’s acceptance speech.
Zaheena Rasheed, Maldives Independent: “This award feels like a lifeline”
The 2017 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Journalism Award-winning Maldives Independent acceptance speech.
Rebel Pepper: “I will continue working hard on creating new cartoons”
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Wang Liming, better known under the pseudonym Rebel Pepper, is one of China’s most notorious political cartoonists. For satirising Chinese Premier Xi Jinping and lampooning the ruling Communist Party, Rebel...
Alp Toker, Turkey Blocks: “Online censorship is increasingly used to mask more severe human rights violations”
Internet shutdowns – the wholesale censorship of millions of voices and silencing of entire populations – pose a grave threat to the media, democracy, most of all vulnerable communities and ordinary citizens.