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...
The October issue of monthly satirical magazine Pyaw Pyaw Shwin Shwin has been postponed after the censor board rejected a quarter of its contents. The board arbitrarily cut poems and stories. Other magazines such as Kalyar, Cherry, Myanmar Thit...
Criminalisation of speech in Peru Magaly Medina and Ney Guerrero Orellano, reporter and the producer of gossip show Magaly Te Ve, were sentenced to prison terms and penalties by a criminal court in Peru on 16 October. They were found guilty of...
Holocaust denier Frederick Toben was returned to custody today, having been denied bail at Westminster Magistrates Court. Toben, 64, is facing extradition to Germany under a European Arrest Warrant. A spokesman for Toben said the Australian citizen...
The European Arrest Warrant is a valuable tool, writes Chris Huhne, but it should not be used to restrict freedom of expression The case of the odious Dr Frederick Toben is destined to become a cause celebre precisely because such hard cases test...