Category: <span>Europe and Central Asia</span>

Index award nominee’s documentary to feature in London Film Festival

by Max Elgot | 06 Sep 17

Behrouz Boochani’s Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time has been selected for the London Film Festival in October after premiering at the Sydney Film Festival in June 2017

Turkey: A year on from the coup attempt, journalists are still being labelled terrorists

by Ryan McChrystal | 30 Aug 17

In the year since the failed coup attempt on 15 July 2016, Turkey has cemented its position as the largest jailer of journalists in the world, with around 166 journalists in prison by the end of June 2017.

Director of Azerbaijan’s last remaining independent media outlet arrested

by Index on Censorship | 25 Aug 17

The charges against Mehman Aliyev and Turan news agency are the nail in the coffin for press freedom in Azerbaijan

Turkey: The Kurdish victims of Sur

by Vecdi Erbay | 23 Aug 17

In the wake of the failed July 2016 coup against the government of Turkey, emergency rule has brought with it the expropriation of homes and the displacement of residents in the country’s south-east.

Ireland’s media ownership concentration breeds pessimism

by Flor Mac Carthy | 10 Aug 17

While media observers routinely identify Ireland’s lack of plurality in media ownership, which is among the most highly concentrated in Europe, as a significant concern, there’s considerable disagreement on how to tackle the issue.

Exiled Turkish journalist Hamza Yalçın arrested in Spain

by Index on Censorship | 09 Aug 17

Index on Censorship calls on Spanish authorities to allow Turkish-Swedish journalist Hamza Yalçın to return to Sweden.

The revolution will be dramatised

by David Aaronovitch | 08 Aug 17

David Aaronovitch argues in the summer 2017 issue of Index on Censorship magazine that historical drama can also be manipulative when it ignores details of the past

Turkey must release French journalist Loup Bureau

by Index on Censorship | 07 Aug 17

Index on Censorship urges Turkish authorities to immediately release French journalist Loup Bureau and drop all charges against him.

Germany: G20 journalists face assault, intimidation and loss of accreditation

by Mary Meisenzahl | 04 Aug 17

Journalists covering the G20 Summit in Hamburg in July were subject to assaults, intimidation and some lost their accreditation, according to verified incidents documented by Index on Censorship’s project Mapping Media Freedom.

Index urges Russian government to halt deportation of Uzbek journalist

by Index on Censorship | 03 Aug 17

Journalist Khudoberdi Nurmatov, who works for independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, is set to be deported back to Uzbekistan, where it is feared he will be tortured.

Russia: Journalists swept up in crackdown on anti-corruption protesters

by Andrey Kalikh | 01 Aug 17

As thousands of people took to the streets across Russia on 12 June 2017 to protest corruption, journalists were among those detained by police, according to verified incidents reported to Mapping Media Freedom.