Lawyers in Rome, Madrid, Paris, The Hague and Berlin will today protest against the wrongful imprisonment of their colleagues in Iran. On this the...
CATEGORY: Middle East and North Africa
Iran’s students prepare for 16 Azar
Reading The Economist's Bagehot blog, earlier this week its writer's dismissal of Britain’s student protests with “The revolution will be along...
Egypt keeps journalists and monitors out of parliamentary polling stations
For months in advance of Sunday’s parliamentary elections, Egyptian officials waged a rather strident campaign to fend off calls to allow...
Middle East: This week’s free expression news
Parliamentary elections are Sunday in Egypt, so here’s a heavily Egypt-centric collection of related links, plus some other happenings around the...
What’s in a name
Index on Censorship today launches Iran Uncut, a special initiative to unearth and revitalise the plethora of archives of literary, artistic,...
Iran: Arrest warrant for Rafsanjani’s son
An arrest warrant has been issued for the son of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Mehdi Hashemi, whose father is an influential cleric and former president...
Press freedom and Egypt’s state security
It started out as a routine night on the Egyptian parliamentary campaign trail, and ended as a clear lesson in the methods that a police state uses...
Egypt: Opposition candidates and supporters arrested
The Muslim Brotherhood has said that more than 1,000 of its members and eight of its candidates have been arrested ahead of next week's...
Iraq: Teen reporter shot dead in front of his parents
TV reporter Mazin Mardan, 18, has been shot dead in front of his parents in his house in Mosul, northern Iraq. The gunmen showed up at his home...
Iran: World’s youngest blogger to be put on trial
An 18-year-old blogger and women's rights activist arrested last September, has been now put on trial. Navid Mohebbi is charged with acting against...