A major new global ranking index tracking the state of free expression is published today
Major new global free expression index sees UK ranking stumble across academic, digital and media freedom
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CATEGORY: United Arab Emirates
Syria passes draconian cybercrime laws
Country is latest to criminalise vaguely defined fake news to target human rights activists and journalists
Contents – Playing with fire: how theatre is resisting the oppressor
The Winter issue of Index magazine highlights the battles fought by theatre of resistance across the world and how they've been enduring different...
Let them know they are not forgotten
Join us in sending messages of support to six human rights activists and journalists around the world who are #JailedNotForgotten
International voices call on UAE to release Ahmed Mansoor
Index on Censorship joins an international coalition calling on the government of the United Arab Emirates to free Ahmed Mansoor.
Press freedom must not be used as a bargaining chip
The call by four Arab states — UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Egypt — for Qatar to close news network Al Jazeera is clearly motivated by a desire to control the media in the region.
UAE: Free human rights defender Dr Nasser Bin Ghaith
We, the undersigned NGOs, call on the authorities to immediately release human rights defender and professor of economics Dr Nasser Bin Ghaith, who remains in detention
UAE: Human rights organisations renew call for release of peaceful activists
On the third anniversary of the start of the mass trial of 94 individuals, including government critics and advocates of reform, 10 human rights organisations appeal to the government of the United Arab Emirates to release immediately and unconditionally all those imprisoned
Revealed: The British exports that crush free expression
The Arab Spring has not stopped Britain from helping crush free expression by selling crowd control ammunition to authoritarian states including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Alex Stevenson reports
UAE: Repression, torture and Twitter
Emirati citizens are using social media platforms to criticise security services for growing levels of repression with authorities responding in kind by arresting and torturing them. Rori Donaghy reports
United Arab Emirates targets HRW for critical report
The United Arab Emirates stand accused of blocking criticism over their human rights record, according to international monitoring group Human Rights Watch. Alastair Sloan reports
UAE: American citizen in maximum-security prison over satirical YouTube video
Shezanne Cassim was arrested for posting a mock documentary spoofing youth culture in Dubai
