Index on Censorship was in Darmstadt, Germany, last week to receive the prestigious Hermann Kesten literary prize from German PEN. The prize is given in honour of Hermann Kesten, the German novelist, who left Germany for Paris in 1933. From Paris,...
Following the arrest of a journalist on espionage charges, the heads of Macedonia’s journalist association and trade union explain the decline of the country’s media freedom
“The most popular book everywhere is George Orwell’s Animal Farm”, Lessing writes from Zimbabwe in 1999
Public service messages on Egyptian radio stations candidly tell listeners that a new constitution currently being drafted by a fifty-member panel “won’t be the best that the country has had”. Listeners are assured however, that the new charter will not be Egypt’s last. Shahira Amin reports
Waleed al-Shehhi was accused of “endangering state security” and “harming the reputation of the state” for tweeting about a trial
“I am Malala” is accused of being against Islam and the constitution, but some prominent Pakistanis see the censoring of the book in private schools as a loss to millions of children, writes Zofeen Ebrahim
The web giant says US national security claims hold back its reporting of government user requests, reports Padraig Reidy
As the Commonwealth leaders converge on Colombo, the UK must confront Rajapaksa on human rights abuses
In light of the Argentinian supreme court’s ruling to uphold the country’s controversial media law, Ronaldo Pelli reports on the fight between governments and private media across Latin America
Sixty-six percent of American writers disapprove of their government’s collection of phone and internet data, according to a survey from the Pen American Center.