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Mapping Media Freedom: Five incidents to watch
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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 recent reports...
Montenegro: Investigative journalists’ lengthy legal proceedings
Independent journalist Jovo Martinovic’s arrest with 13 other individuals during a joint Croatian and Montenegrin police operation on 22 October 2015 began an ongoing ordeal
Bahrain: Rights activist facing two trials in March
Bahrain’s government continues its judicial harassment of Nabeel Rajab
Meet the new Index youth advisory board
Index on Censorship has recruited a new youth board to sit until June 2017. The group is made up of young students, journalists and legal professionals from countries including India, Hungary and the Republic of Ireland.
GreatFire: Chinese authorities don’t understand how the internet works
Digital activism group GreatFire talk about developments in China’s approach to internet censorship.
Mamadali Makhmudov: Writing the truth, only truth
Arrested twice and imprisoned for 14 years, writer Mamadali Makhmudov was released in 2013 after an international outcry. He continues to be blacklisted and his works are silenced.
Bahrain’s Day of Rage, six years on
A reading list looking at Bahrain’s uprising six years on.
Arts Council England awards Index funding to help address arts censorship
The £100,000 grant will be used to provide workshops for boards and senior management of arts organisations in England and Wales
Index’s youth board discusses media freedom in Europe with MMF correspondents
To highlight the most pressing concerns for press freedom in Europe in 2017, members Index’s outgoing youth board review the year gone by with Mapping Media Freedom correspondents