The theme of clothing and preoccupation with exterior representation continues to dominate every day Iranian existence. We've seen the sustained crackdown on individual expression for Iranian citizens extending to hairstyle and dyeing, eyebrow...
Lebanese musician Zeid Hamdan was briefly held at the prison of the Palace of Justice in Beirut on Wednesday for defaming President Michel Suleiman, urging him in a song posted on YouTube last year to "go home." A statement posted on Hamdan's...
Miri Weingarten explains the undemocratic new legislation that has been criticised in Israel and abroad
Index on Censorship calls for the release of film maker Mahnaz Mohammadi and actress and documentary maker
Pegah Ahangarani
The office of Ma’an Network, a news agency based in Gaza City, was attacked by masked assailants. According to local reports, staff at the main office saw the building on fire in the early hours of Sunday morning. After initial investigations,...
The Asad regime’s determination to win the propaganda war has led to the assassination of Hama protest singer Ibrahim Qashoush says Salwa Ismail
New Zealand journalist Glen Johnson has been released from custody in Yemen and was deported to Dubai earlier today, Index on Censorship has learned. Johnson, 28, was arrested in southern Yemen in late June. Yemen ranks at 170 out of 178 countries...
Officials arrested Omar al-Asaad, a Syrian journalist and activist, on Sunday evening (3 July) at a funeral for a fellow protester killed in Damascus. Asaad wrote for a number of Arabic newspapers, including Al-Hayat and Aljazeera. Earlier in the...
The arrest and detention of a Kiwi journalist lays bare the risks and calculations taken by foreign journalists in Yemen. Iona Craig reports from Sana’a
Tear gas was fired at protesters in Tahrir Square this week as hundreds of Egyptians demanded faster action against former senior officials who are currently awaiting trial. On Tuesday evening, families of the 840 people killed in February’s mass...