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#FashionRules: Fashion is a crucial element of free expression
It may be easy to dismiss fashion as a trivial issue, but an expert panel argued otherwise at the launch of the winter 2016 Index on Censorship magazine’s new issue.
Turkey: Pro-government newspapers rewarded with state-sponsored advertising
Imprisoned journalists make headlines, but the Turkish government has a more insidious method for controlling the media
Mapping Media Freedom: Five incidents to watch
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout the European Union and neighbouring countries. Here are five recent reports that give us cause for concern.
Turkey: “The worst time is when the ruler and the evil of the people are united”
I am a Turkish activist, a human rights defender, a dissident, and currently I feel like a lab rat trapped in a maze, trying to find an exit to freedom.
Index on Censorship magazine: Talking fashion and freedom
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Section 40: Local newspapers respond to “dangerous lunacy”
Local newspapers have an extremely important role in shining a light on corruption, danger and crime in their communities.
Portugal: Low wages and job insecurity threaten media freedom
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Although not exposed to the perils that press freedom encounters in places such as Turkey or Hungary, experts in Portugal tell Mapping Media Freedom that journalists in the country live under a “subliminal” type...
Azerbaijan: Regime targets musician through his family
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Azerbaijani rapper Jamal Ali's family were summoned to questioning by the Baku State police. They have since been released. "My mother and some other relatives are in Baku state police department now," Ali wrote...
Charlie Hebdo: Two years on
On 7 January 2015, two gunmen entered the offices of Charlie Hebdo and murdered 12 people, including most of the senior editorial staff. The attack was in reprisal for the satirical magazine’s publishing cartoons of the prophet Mohammed.