Authorities are intent on stifling calls for free elections, says Malik Imtiaz Sarwar
Malaysia’s ‘Bersih 2.0’ movement silenced
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Gaza: News agency HQ attacked
The office of Ma’an Network, a news agency based in Gaza City, was attacked by masked assailants. According to local reports, staff at the main office saw the building on fire in the early hours of Sunday morning. After initial investigations,...
Malayasia: 1600 arrested as campaign for electoral reform continues
Police in Malaysia made 1600 arrests at the weekend, as protesters ignored government warnings to cancel anti-government action. Leaders of the opposition coalition, Bersih, who have led the campaign for a “free and fair” election system, were...
Making a courtroom drama out of a media crisis
News International’s Hackgate scandal does not justify state press regulation, argues Rohan Jayasekera
PLUS: John Kampfner: Britain’s media must start policing itself
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