Category: <span>Asia and Pacific</span>

Malaysia: would watchdog free web?

The establishment of an independent press council may help protect journalists and Internet activists like Raja Petra Kamaruddin, writes Daniel...

Internet protocol

by Index on Censorship | 27 Aug 08

New laws on digital media in Thailand may strengthen the nation’s lese-majesty laws, writes David Jardine Swingeing new controls on the use of the...

New bill curbs freedom of assembly

by Natasha Schmidt | 08 Aug 08

Freedom of assembly is under threat in Kyrgystan after President Kurmanbek Bakiev signed an amended law on the rights of citizens on 6 August. The...

Olympic challenge

by Natasha Schmidt | 08 Aug 08

As the Games begin in Beijing, Index publishes a roundup of arrests, detentions and surveillance since January –-- a reminder that China has yet to...

Countdown to Beijing, part 4

by Index on Censorship | 04 Aug 08

Continuing our series of articles from Index on Censorship’s ‘Made In China’ issue, Internet pioneer Isaac Mao explains why freedom of thought is...

Countdown to Beijing, part 3

by Index on Censorship | 29 Jul 08

Continuing our series of articles from Index on Censorship's 'Made In China' issue, Rebecca MacKinnon discusses how online pioneers are changing...

Editor receives death threat over cartoon

by Natasha Schmidt | 28 Jul 08

Najam Sethi, chief editor of Pakistan's Daily Times, received death threats from militant group the Islamic Taliban Movement for publishing a...

Speech control

by Index on Censorship | 22 Jul 08

The Burmese authorities are employing new tactics in their control of information, reports Nem Davies In the wake of the saffron revolution and...

Arrests in China

by Index on Censorship | 22 Jul 08

Huang Qi was arrested on 10 July for ‘illegal possession of state secrets’. He posted articles criticising the way relief was organised after the 12...