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Silencing the voice of freedom in Syria
The Asad regime’s determination to win the propaganda war has led to the assassination of Hama protest singer Ibrahim Qashoush says Salwa Ismail
Clapping protests sweep Belarus as economy slides
“Independence Day” in Minsk was marked with demonstrations against President Lukashenko. Olga Birukova reports
Age of insecurity
Cooperation between the communications industry and governments creates new opportunities for surveillance. Gus Hosein and Eric King of Privacy International urge us not to allow companies to assume that users are uninterested in what happens to their data
New media crackdown prior to South Sudan split
As journalists are jailed and fined for reporting on the rape of a human rights campaigner, Abdelgadir Mohammed Abdelgadir reports on press freedom in Sudan
Journalist released, deported from Yemen
New Zealand journalist Glen Johnson has been released from custody in Yemen and was deported to Dubai earlier today, Index on Censorship has learned. Johnson, 28, was arrested in southern Yemen in late June. Yemen ranks at 170 out of 178 countries...
Britain’s media must start policing itself
No one can now be in any doubt about the depths to which some in the British media will sink to get a story. John Kampfner reports
Kiwi journalist in Yemen prison
The arrest and detention of a Kiwi journalist lays bare the risks and calculations taken by foreign journalists in Yemen. Iona Craig reports from Sana’a
Code breakers
Journalists are being tarnished by the activities of professional privacy invaders. It is time they were renamed and shamed, argues Brian Cathcart
Turkey: Contributors to user-generated dictionary arrested
Istanbul police have arrested 50 contributors to Turkey's largest user-generated dictionary. The "Sour Dictionary" (Eksi Sozluk) site offers satirical definitions of a number of common words and has been running for around 12 years. The anonymous...