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Ukraine: The politics of hunger

The battle over the legacy of the Ukranian famine threatens to divide the country, writes Michael Foley So often that which politicians hope will...

New attempt to end blasphemy law

by Index on Censorship | 08 Jan 08

Liberal Democrat MP Dr Evan Harris will tomorrow table an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill calling for the abolition of...

Russia: Elections of the absurd

by Index on Censorship | 20 Dec 07

Coverage of the recent Duma poll and forthcoming presidential race suggests that Russian media increasingly only functions to endorse the government...

Sudan: The great teddy bear fiasco

by Padraig Reidy | 12 Dec 07

Gillian Gibbons’s recent imprisonment in Sudan led Albaqir A Mukhtar to ask if the Khartoum government is protecting Islam or defiling it The naming...

Britain: ‘What people take offence at, or chose to be offended by, will always be unpredictable’

by Index on Censorship | 10 Dec 07

Last week, Stephen Green of conservative religious group Christian Voice failed in his attempt to have the BBC charged with blasphemy for its...

Russia: Protesters under pressure

by Padraig Reidy | 30 Nov 07

Vladimir Putin is ultimately responsible for last weekend's oppression of political demonstrations, writes Oksana Chelysheva There are two Russias...

Pakistan: Coping with censorship

by Padraig Reidy | 29 Nov 07

As President Musharraf announces that he will end Pakistan's state of emergency on 16 December, Shirin B Sadeghi looks at how the media has...

Britain: Choices, not rights

by Index on Censorship | 22 Nov 07

The row over whether David Irving and Nick Griffin should speak at the Oxford Union is not an argument about freedom of speech, writes Padraig Reidy...

Who killed Mohammed al Dura?

by Padraig Reidy | 17 Nov 07

It was the most iconic image of the second intifada: the killing, on camera, of a Palestinian child caught up in the violence of September 2000. But...