Media workers have come under attack from pro-Mubarak forces in Cairo. Read Index’s Storify account here
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Detention of journalists and death of student in Sudan protests
As protests against rising food and living costs continue in Khartoum, six journalists and two media staff have been detained by authorities and one...
Pro-Mubarak violence shows why protests happened in first place
The internet suddenly came back up this morning but anybody who thought the return of the net meant some sort of softening Mubarak’s stance was quickly disillusioned. Index on Censorship’s Egypt regional editor Ashraf Khalil reports
India’s morality patrol
Obscenity laws, religion and self-censorship continue to blight India’s cultural scene.
Leo Mirani reports
Cracks widening in Egypt’s internet wall
The closure of Egypt’s internet services represents a battle of wills between Mubarak and protesters. Index on Censorship’s Egypt regional editor Ashraf Khalil reports
Egypt must lift emergency measures
Index on Censorship is gravely concerned at the loss of life and injury to protesters on the sixth day of the popular uprising in Egypt
Egypt’s Twitter-less revolution
The Egyptian government has cut mobile telephone and internet services, Index on Censorship’s Egypt regional editor Ashraf Khalil reports on how the information vacuum affected yesterday’s “day of rage”
Middle East: Will Yemen be next?
Inspired by unrest in Egypt and Tunisia, the opposition has staged massive protests demanding President Saleh’s resignation but so far there is no sign of a grass-roots move for change. Iona Craig reports
Index Eyewitness: Cairo
Read Index on Censorship’s Ashraf Khalil‘s exclusive report from Friday’s anti-government protests in the Egyptian capital
EU to ban Lukashenko
Belarus's president Alexander Lukashenko is facing a fresh ban from travelling to the European Union after the brutal crackdown on opposition in the...