Video: Earlier today Bill Echikson (Google), Simon Milner (Facebook), and Felix Treguer (La Quadrature du Net) debated the reality and the responsibilities of protecting free expression online. Watch the replay here
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Who supports free expression at the Council of Europe?
Exclusive Index analysis: Despite its influence, voting records at the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly are rarely scrutinised.
Index on Censorship examines voting patterns to show who protects free expression and who hinders it

Bahrain: Journalists deported
Index condemns the arrest and deportation of foreign journalists covering demonstrations against the widely-criticised Bahrain Grand Prix this past week
Arrests at Pussy Riot rally
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 Pussy Riot Members are being prosecuted after performing a protest song "Mother of God, send Putin...
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 and Index award winner Idrak Abbasov IPGA Letter to President Aliyev on Idrak Abbasov

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.
Read more: Azerbaijan must investigate attack on Index award winning journalist
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 house Al-Maqaleh, editor of the news website Aleshteraki for the Yemeni Socialist Party, visited...
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 nine-year sentence. Karamatov was found guilty of extortion and imprisoned in 2006, but independent...

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