Zimbabwe's ministry of Media, Information and Publicity has ordered the state-controlled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) and public newspapers to stop reporting on ministers from the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), until Morgan...
Grenadian high court Judge Claire Henry ordered the liquidation, on 22 October, of the "Grenada Today" newspaper after the owners failed to reach an agreement with former Prime Minister Keith Mitchell over the settlement of an EC$191,000...
It was reported on 30 October that up to 50 people including 10 journalists, political activists and students have been arrested in Rangoon. Although no official reason behind the arrests has been given it is thought they were part of an attempt to...
Investigations conducted in Croatia and Serbia have led to the indictment on 26 October of eight individuals accused of murdering Ivo Pukanić, the owner of political weekly Nacional. Sreten Jocić, a wealthy Serbian businessman indicted for two...
American journalist Courtney C Radsch was fired from her post at Al Arabiya news on 5 October for uncovering breaches of safety at Emirates Airlines. Radsch had written an article on pilot fatigue in the airline. Within 24 hours of the article’s...
Maria de los Ángeles González Hernández, columnist at the newspaper "El Político" has reportedly received a number of anonymous death threats by email, allegedly from local labour leaders in Xalapa, Veracruz, southern Mexico. On 22 October, the...
Jagdish Grewal, founder and editor and editor of Brampton (Canada)-based newspaper "Punjabi Post" was attacked by three masked men armed with a baton and a gun outside the newspaper's offices, on 23 October. Mr. Grewal, who also hosts a daily...
Public hearings into the Iraq war are set to begin on 24 November, the panel’s chairman Sir John Chilcot said today. But witnesses still do not know whether the evidence they give will ever make its way into the public domain, says Chris Ames
Coincidence or serendipity? Index on Censorship has found itself oddly placed by legal developments in a long running spat between Israeli and UK human rights activists and the Israeli Medical Association (IMA). Physicians for Human Rights in...
The road to greater surveillance and restrictions of liberties has been paved with good intentions from both the right and left, says Matthew Ryder. As the public mood changes, it is worth keeping this in mind