A Moscow court has pronolonged the detention of three members of punk feminist group Pussy Riot detention until the end of June. The three alleged...
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Azerbaijan must investigate attack on Index award winning journalist
Index on Censorship joins the call for an immediate, independent and transparent investigation into the brutal attack on investigative journalist...
Sannikov and Bandarenka released, but Belarus is still not free
The release of Sannikov and Bandarenka last weekend was welcome news for Europe’s last dictatorship. But with at least 13 more political prisoners behind bars, Belarus is far from free, says Andrei Aliaksandrau
Presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov released from Belarus penal colony
Azerbaijan: Index award-winning journalist Idrak Abbasov brutally beaten
Azerbaijani journalist and Index award-winner Idrak Abbasov was brutally assaulted today and remains in hospital.
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Yemen: journalist attacked in Sana’a
Prominent Yemeni journalist Muhammad al-Maqaleh was assaulted by armed men affiliated with a tribal group while visiting a government official's...
Uzbekistan: Activist Karamatov released
Alisher Karamatov, a member of teh Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan, was released from prison on 13 April, having served almost six years of a...
Andrei Sannikov released from Belarus penal colony
– Index on Censorship welcomes release of leading opposition figure in Europe’s last dictatorship
– Campaign to free all Belarus’s political prisoners goes on
Free Abdulhadi Alkhawaja
Open letter: Bahrain risks instigating a collapse of its civic society if it fails to release activist and hunger striker Abdulhadi Alkhawaja. Index joins rights organisations, politicians and academics in calling on Bahrain’s ruler to release him immediately
London, capital of spin
How does lobbying in the UK affect international free speech? Index on Censorship’s Head of Advocacy
Michael Harris explains
Global coalition of NGOs call for official withdrawal of Pakistan censorship plans
Index on Censorship joins a global coalition of NGO’s to call for the withdrawal of censorship plans in Pakistan