Index on Censorship has received a report that Al-Ahram Weekly's correspondent in the West Bank, Khalid Amayreh, was arrested by the Palestinian Authority's Preventive Security Service last night following a interview with Al-Quds TV station in...
This is a guest post by Chris Ames So it turns out that another of the government’s claims about Iraq was baseless. As I revealed last week, it cannot prove a claim that former attorney general Lord Goldsmith decided that the war would be legal...
Rebecca MacKinnon knows more than practically anyone other westerner about free expression in China. Over at her blog, rconversation, she has written a rather excellent and comprehensive (read 'long') analysis of Charter 08, the pro-reform...
Political scientist Ji Ungpakorn, a professor at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University and a prominent activist, has called for a campaign to abolish the country’s lèse majesté law. The academic has been charged with insulting the monarchy over a book...
The UK press is buzzing with the news of Russian Alexander Lebedev's takeover of London's Evening Standard. So what can Standard staff expect? Abramovich-style injections of cash? Possibly not: less than two months ago, Novaya Gazeta, the Russian...
The BBC’s Persian TV service goes on air today. At the press launch last week, Nigel Chapman of the World Service said the hope was that the BBC’s combined Persian service (TV, radio and web) would attract an audience of 20 million. Currently, the...
'No other profession calls on its practitioners to lay down their lives for their art save the armed forces --- and, in Sri Lanka, journalism.' Read the rest here
Anyone planning to go to the opening at the London School of Economics this week of 'Secret Life', an exhibition drawn from Malu Halasa and Rana Salam's acclaimed book on Syrian lingerie, will be surprised to find that it's not on show: Malu Halasa...
Babu Ramaswamy, an official at the censor board in the South Indian city of Chennai, has announced that film censors shall be paying keen attention to instances of smoking and drinking deemed unnecessary. The board has also suggested that film...
Is the BBC's quest for balance actually distorting its coverage of Israel's military campaign in Gaza? Index on Censorship Chief Executive John Kampfner thinks it might be: 'Language, as any propagandist knows, is the most important tool. Hamas...