MURDERED 8 NOVEMBER 1997 Francisco Castro Menco, President, Fundación Cultural — Majagual, Colombia Join us in demanding justice for Francisco Castro Menco, murdered on 8 November 1997. A candidate for the departmental assembly, and president of...
MURDERED 7 NOVEMBER 2005 Ahmed Hussein al-Maliki, Local Affairs Editor, "Talafar al-Yawm" — Mosul, Iraq Join us in demanding justice for Ahmed Hussein al-Maliki, who was gunned down on 7 November 2005 by unidentified gunmen while exiting an...
Anti-free speech legislation is used as a weapon in the ongoing political war between the Thaksin Shinawatra political machine and the Democrat Party. Voranai Vanijaka reports
MURDERED NOVEMBER 2004 Wadallah Sarhan, Editor-in-Chief, Akhbar Al-Mosul --- Mosul,Iraq Join us in demanding justice for Wadallah Sarhan, gunned down in November 2004 by assailants near his home, which doubled as the newspaper's office, according...
MURDERED 5 NOVEMBER 2008 Reporter, "Expreso Matamoros", Matamoros, Mexico Join us in demanding justice Carlos Alberto Guajardo Romero, the 37-year-old left home to cover a confrontation between military forces and drug traffickers in Matamoros on 5...
The smoke had barely cleared from the burned-out office of Charlie Hebdo magazine – firebombed for publishing cartoons of Mohammed – when TIME magazine’s Bruce Crumley chose to criticise the satirists before the terrorist. James Kirchick denounces a too-familiar tendancy
Plus: Sara Yasin and Myriam Francois-Cerrah on France, Charlie Hebdo and the meaning of Mohammed
MURDERED 4 NOVEMBER 1993 Reporter, Radio Congo - Bacongo, Democratic Republic of the Congo Join us in demanding justice for Laurent Bisset, a reporter for the state-owned Radio Congo and an outspoken supporter of then President Pascal Lissouba, was...
Index on Censorship and six other international rights groups call for the five activists known as the UAE 5 to be released from detention and the charges against them to be dropped
Murdered 3 November 2008 Reporter, Royal TV - Punjab, Pakistan Join us in demanding justice for Abdul Razzak Johra, 45, dragged by six armed men from his home in the Mianwali district of Punjab, Pakistan on 3 November 2008 and shot --- a day after...
The office of French satirical Magazine Charlie Hebdo was firebombed as a result of its decision to publish a front cover satirising Mohammed. Here, Sara Yasin and Myriam Francois-Cerrah discuss the background and motivations behind the attack, and ask why some Muslims feel entitled to answer offence with violence