Rachel Greenspan reports from the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference, where industry and activists met to discuss free expression online
Rightscon: “If we don’t get this right, people will be put in jail”
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Tunisian elections: media reform key to democracy
Tunisians flocked to voting stations yesterday in the country’s first-ever free elections, but only the cultivation of an independent media will safeguard democracy and free expression, writes Rohan Jayasekera
Censorship and Colonel Gaddafi: How to build a dictatorship
This account of censorship by
F el-Manssoury, published in Index on Censorship magazine in 1981 in Libya is based on first-hand knowledge of the early years of President Gaddafi’s regime
Saudi filmmakers arrested for YouTube video
Three Saudi men were detained on Sunday after a film they made exposing poverty in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital, was aired on television. Feras Bugnah, a popular Saudi blogger, and Khalid al-Rasheed and Hosam al-Deraiwish were allegedly...
Bahrain: Teacher re-arrested for speaking against human rights violations
The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights reports that Jaleela Al Salman, vice president of the Bahrain Teachers Association was arrested on 18 October from her home without a warrant. On 25 September, a military court sentenced Al Salman to three years...
Report: Maikel Nabil Sanad transferred to psychiatric hospital
Sahar Maher, human rights activist and a member of the Free Maikel campaign, has told Index that authorities are transferring Maikel Nabil to a "mental hospital", where he would be "put under watch for 45 days to make sure his mental situation is...
Yemen: Cameraman killed by security forces
A cameraman for Al-Yemen TV, Abd Al-Ghani Al-Bureihi, was killed when Yemeni security forces opened fire at a demonstration in Sanaa calling for the president to step down on 16 October. Two other cameramen were also allegedly injured at the same...
Tunisia: Crowds gather for anti-censorship march
Thousands of demonstrators took part in an anti-censorship march in the Tunisian capital on Sunday. As the debate between Islamic conservatives and secularists continues in the country, the liberal demonstrators gathered for the march,...
Egypt’s Bloody Sunday
On 9 October, 27 demonstrators protesting attacks against churches were murdered outside Egypt’s state TV building.
Yasmine El-Rashidi asks why the media is silencing one side of the story
Bahrain: Where a Facebook “like” gets you expelled
Students at Bahrain Polytechnic are being silenced and expelled for social media posts. Sara Yasin reports