Journalist Agil Khalil of the opposition newspaper Azadlig had an attempt made on his life on 7 May, when someone tried to push him under an underground train. Later that day, two men grabbed him near the newspaper’s office. Khalil believes it was...
Reuters photographer Howard Burditt was was released on bail yesterday after he was arrested on Monday for allegedly using a satellite phone to file pictures of the aftermath of Zimbabwe's elections. Meanwhile, Davison Maruziva, editor of the...
On 6 May, the head office of the Leadership newspaper in Abuja was raided by policemen from the Niger State Command in north central Nigeria. The police had a list of 15 senior editorial staff who they claimed were wanted in Minna, the Niger State...
Visual artists and even pop stars could face prosecution under new British legislation, writes John Ozimek Collectors looking to make a fast buck by investing in erotica had a nervous awakening this morning. And fans of Madonna were left wondering...
Gazeta Slonimskaya, an independent weekly journal in Belarus, has been threatened with eviction by state authorities. In what many see as a linked event in Belarus's crackdown on independent media, Uladzimir Uladashchuk, editor of Gazeta...
Al Jazeera cameraman Sami Al Hajj has been released from Guantanamo Bay after six years. The US military have not pressed any charges againt Al Hajj, despite claiming he had smuggled weapons for Al Qaeda. Al Hajj, who has been reunited with his...
Turkey's controversial article 301 has been reworded. Under an amendment passed by the parliament this morning, The term 'Turkishness' is replaced by the 'Turkish nation', and the term 'Republic' with 'State of the Republic of Turkey'. Index on...
Three Ugandan journalists have been arrested after raids on the offices of the Independent magazine. The three, including the magazine’s editor Andrew Mwenda, are accused of being in possession of seditious material and of publishing inflammatory...
The Russian State Duma voted 339-1 today to tighten media rules on slander and libel. Redefining the offences as ‘dissemination of deliberately false information damaging individual honour and dignity’, the new legislation would allow authorities...
Last Monday, Index on Censorship honoured Burma's monks for their struggle against the ruling junta. The military regime is now cracking down on dissent as it pushes through a new constitution, writes David Jardine Burma's brutal ruling military...