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Rightscon: “If we don’t get this right, people will be put in jail”
Rachel Greenspan reports from the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference, where industry and activists met to discuss free expression online
Tunisian elections: media reform key to democracy
Tunisians flocked to voting stations yesterday in the country’s first-ever free elections, but only the cultivation of an independent media will safeguard democracy and free expression, writes Rohan Jayasekera
Occupy Wall Street – Journalists face difficulty
Alice Purkiss: Occupy Wall Street – Journalists face difficulty
Censorship and Colonel Gaddafi: How to build a dictatorship
This account of censorship by
F el-Manssoury, published in Index on Censorship magazine in 1981 in Libya is based on first-hand knowledge of the early years of President Gaddafi’s regime
Libel reform: a final push
As Parliament takes a significant step in its slow removal of the UK’s pariah status on defamation, John Kampfner describes the progress on libel reform
Libel reform campaign responds to parliamentary committee findings
Libel reform campaign responds to parliamentary committee findings
The Libel Reform Campaign is calling for the government to honour manifesto promises for a defamation bill with a strong public interest defence to protect authors, bloggers, scientists, academics and NGOs
Azerbaijan at 20: Little progress on free speech
As Azerbaijan celebrates 20 years of independence, Index on Censorship tracks its citizens’ struggle for free expression
France: Court orders French “cop watching” site to be blocked
A court in France has ruled that internet service providers must block access to a "cop watching" web site. The website, Copwatch Nord Paris I-D-F, shows pictures and videos of police officers arresting suspects, taunting protesters and allegedly...
Egypt’s Bloody Sunday
On 9 October, 27 demonstrators protesting attacks against churches were murdered outside Egypt’s state TV building.
Yasmine El-Rashidi asks why the media is silencing one side of the story