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Contents – The monster unleashed: How Hungary’s illiberal vision is seducing the western world
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CATEGORY: Middle East and North Africa
Smearing, harassing, criminalising and killing is no longer the exception for journalists
Read below former Index CEO and now the chief executive of the Committee to Project Journalists Jodie Ginsberg’s powerful James Cameron Memorial Lecture delivered before the targeted killing this week by Israeli forces of a three-strong Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese television crew
The exclusion of Palestinian voices means the same mistakes are being made on Gaza
In 1993, the Oslo Accords promised peace in the Middle East. Thirty-two years on, a new peace initiative seeks to extract the same out of the wreckage of Gaza
Truth dies when you fire the fact-checkers
Experts who can spot the red flags and contextualise the information we receive aren’t free-speech enemies
Offline by decree: Iran’s war on the internet
In wartime, sharing photos of bombed locations or even accessing the internet could get you prosecuted for collaborating with the enemy
Iran: “Whoever we blame – this moment is overwhelming”
To be an Iranian dissident must be profoundly confusing. The autocratic ayatollah has been killed but there is no succession plan
Australia cracks down on protest
Demonstrations against Israeli President Isaac Herzog have been met by a brutal police response
In Iran, funerals are the new battleground
The authorities are trying to control how the nation grieves its protesting dead. The people are pushing back
Five decades of Iranian protest
As Iranian spiritual leader Ali Khamenei admits thousands have died recently, we look at how protest has shaped the country since the Shah
Starlink offers a glimmer of hope in the internet darkness
Uganda is the latest country to shut down the internet as people goes to the polls