Index on Censorship youth advisory board member Harsh Ghildiyal explains why he thinks India’s criminal defamation laws are not reasonable
Harsh Ghildiyal: Defamation is not a crime
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Tom Carter: No-platforming Nigel
Index on Censorship youth advisory board member Tom Carter explains why he thinks no-platforming undermines free expression
Matthew Brown: Spying on NGOs a step too far
Index youth advisory board member Matthew Brown explores why he thinks mass surveillance has gone too far.
Padraig Reidy: “Denis O’Brien to sue everyone”
Ireland’s richest media mogul, owner of the country’s largest newspaper group, had a satire malfunction last week when his solicitors, Meaghers, pursued up-and-coming satirical website Waterford Whispers.
Creative team behind Homegrown “deeply shocked” by cancellation
The creative team behind the cancelled National Youth Theatre production Homegrown said they are “deeply shocked.”
Raymond Joseph: South Africa’s camera-shy police target journalists
Despite high-level meetings between media and the police’s top brass, who say that such actions are not condoned, incidents of journalist harassment continue to occur
Salil Tripathi: As Singapore turns 50, is it on the cusp of becoming different?
As the Asian city-state marks its 50th anniversary of independence, Salil Tripathi examines the country’s fuzzy relationship with free expression
Moroccan authorities commit to giving satirist identity documents
Journalist Ali Lmrabet had been holding a hunger strike in front of the UN’s Geneva offices since 24 June because of Moroccan authorities’ refusals to renew his identity documents
Sri Lanka: Colombo Telegraph facing censorship despite presidential promise
The Colombo Telegraph, Sri Lanka’s most iconoclastic investigative news website, is gearing up for this year’s second national election. And once again they face the threat of censorship — despite a presidential promise to bring it to an end
“He is denied his right to an identity”: why a Moroccan satirist is on hunger strike
Ali Lmrabet is protesting what he sees as the latest bid from his country Morocco to stop him from doing his job