A Pakistani Christian girl accused of desecrating a copy of the Qur'an was freed from a jail in Rawalpindi on Saturday. Rimisha Masih, who is 14 years old and has Down's syndrome, was released after her village's Muslim cleric was arrested,...
The arrest of an anti-corruption cartoonist in India on sedition charges has sparked outrage. Marta Cooper reports
As Barack Obama gets ready to rally his troops at the Democratic National Convention, Mark Rumold says his administration has cast free speech aside in its pursuit of file sharers and whistleblowers
Freedom of expression has suffered a crackdown in Vietnam in recent years, with bloggers being the main target. Geoffrey Cain asks what has prompted this intense backlash against free speech
Search engines and social networking sites are at the heart of Web 2.0. To unreasonably threaten them with liability for user content misses the point, says
Marta Cooper
Sara Yasin looks at some disturbing cases of censorship in the name of religious offence
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been granted political asylum in Ecuador. The Australian national, who has been living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for two months after breaching his bail conditions in the UK, is wanted in Sweden, where...
Index on Censorship condemns the sentencing of human rights defender and Index award winner Nabeel Rajab to three years in prison
The world’s largest democracy is all too willing to censor the web, says Marta Cooper
In 2007, Fergal Keane reported for Index on the near impossibility of working as a reporter in Burma. Returning in 2012, he found much had changed. But though the military is slowly loosening its grip, restrictions remain