A schoolboy in Morocco has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for insulting the country's monarch. The 18-year-old allegedly changed the 'God, Fatherland, King' national slogan on his school blackboard to 'God, Fatherland, Barcelona'. Read...
A Turkish Court has banned internet users in Turkey from accessing blogs hosting service Blogger.com and any blogspot.com domain. The court decision came after the Digiturk Company, a subscription based only digital TV platform owning the right to...
Germany's largest trade union has called for the resignation of Hans-Werner Sinn, president of the Ifo ecomonic research institute, after he compared the criticism of bank managers during the credit crunch to the persecution of Jews in Nazi...
The assassination of Ivo Pukanic and Niko Franjic reveals the dangers of reporting on Croatia's complex organised crime world, writes Goran Milakovic Ivo Pukanic, columnist with Nacional magazine and chairman of the NCL Media Group, was killed...
Journalist Ivo Pukanic and marketing executive Niko Franjic have been killed in a car-bomb attack in the Croatian capital, Zagreb. Pukanic's magazine, Nacional, had gained a reputation for reporting corruption and organised crime. Read more here
China sought to prevent the awarding of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Chinese dissident Hu Jia on 23 October. Prior to the awarding ceremony, the Chinese ambassador to the EU Song Zhe warned the European Parliament President...
Two Turkish policeman charged with abusing their office after posing for photographs with the lead suspect in the murder of Hrant Dink have been acquitted. The court claimed that it could not find 'solid and convincing evidence' of wrongdoing.
Turkish premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won a claim of 'moral damage' against satirical magazine Leman On the cover of its 6 February edition, the magazine carried a photomontage of Erdogan showing his middle finger, while a speech bubble read 'We...
A Kabul court has overturned the death sentence passed on student journalist Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh. The sentence has now been commuted to 20 years imprisonment. Kambakhsh described the sentence as 'unfair'. Read more here Read Index on...
Azerbaijani satirist and government critic Sakit Zakhidov, known by his pen name, Mirza Sakit, was brutally beaten in jail on 18 October, local media activists have told Index on Censorship. Sakit was jailed in June 2008 for allegedly carrying...