Afghan freelance journalist Sultan Munadi was killed in the British military rescue of New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell. Index on Censorship spoke about growing risks to local freelancers with Tina Carr of the Rory Peck Trust, a charity that helps freelance journalists and their families in times of crisis
UNESCOs proposed international sex education guidelines aimed at reducing HIV have been removed from its website amid criticism by conservative American organisations that they were too explicit for young children. The guidelines are a product of...
Journalist Lubna Hussein has been released, apparently "against her wishes", after the Sudanese journalists union paid the penalty fine of £130 for wearing trousers in public. She had refused to pay the fine herself. Hussein had initially faced a...
Calls to ban the far-right BNP from the BBC’s Question Time can only harm democracy, says Salil Tripathi
Afghan student Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh has been freed from prison after he was secretly pardon by Afghanistan's President Karzai. Kambakhsh was sentenced to death, commuted to imprisonment, after he was accused of circulating an article that...
The killing of documentary maker Christian Poveda in El Salvador represents a sad loss for a region much in need of greater understanding, writes Deborah Bonello
Six journalists imprisoned for sedition in Gambia have been pardoned by President Jammeh. Read more here
Billionaire Saudi banker Khalid bin Mahfouz, best known in Britain for a series of libel suits and legal threats against reporters and authors who connected his businesses with terror funding, has died of a heart attack at the age of 60. Read more...
Christopher Graham says his office has been “let down by MPs”. Index on Censorship reports
Lal Wickrematunge says the 20-year sentence handed to JS Tissainayagam is a warning to the Sri Lanka’s already embattled media