Since the beginning of this year, cases of assault against journalists, legal threats and lay offs worsened Turkey’s already precarious state of press freedom. Catherine Stupp reports
Assaults against journalists rise in Turkey
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Hungary: Council of Europe shares concern over NGO audits
Hungarian NGOs are facing a rough summer: The Government Control Office (KEHI) has launched a series of investigations into grants they received from the Norway Financial Mechanism.
Macedonia: Journalist arrested while covering rally in Skopje
Besim Ibrahimi, intern for the Albanian-language newspaper Lajm, was arrested on Saturday, 5 July during a rally against the jailing of alleged extremist ethnic Albanian Muslims for the “terrorist” murders of ethnic Macedonians.
Padraig Reidy: When truth is stranger than fiction
Three years ago this week, David Cameron announced that a public inquiry into phone hacking would be set up, under the guidance of Lord Justice Leveson. It may be difficult to imagine now, but this was generally seen as a positive step.
From the archive: John Mortimer on defending Felix Dennis at the Oz trial
John Mortimer took on the most infamous obscenity cases of the 1970s. He talked to Index in 2008 about defending the editors of Oz magazine, including the late Felix Dennis
Lawyers representing journalists face arrest says NGO
There has been an 18% rise in violence towards journalists compared to the same period last year, International Media Support, an organisation that works in many of the world’s biggest danger zones, told an international journalism conference. Vicky Baker reports
The “slippery slope” of Chinese literary censorship
American journalist Evan Osnos says he turned down the opportunity to publish a copy of his new book in China because censors asked for almost a quarter to be struck out. The case highlights the dilemma writers face publishing in a country now hungry for western works, reports Dinah Gardner
Finding voices: Refugee journalism in Egypt
On World Refugee Day, Index on Censorship meets Munzalak – a new Cairo-based initiative looking to empower refugees through journalism. Tom Rollins reports.
The repugnant Section 66A of India’s Information Technology Act
Repealing the blatantly arbitrary law is the only way to protect and uphold the freedom of expression, Saurav Datta writes
Mapping Media Freedom: Selected reports
As part of its effort to map media freedom in Europe, Index on Censorship's regional correspondents are monitoring media across the continent. Here...
Nigeria: Journalists targeted in “war on terror”
Nigeria’s security agents have abused the pretext of their own “war on terror” to threaten, harass, arrest, detain, and seize the equipment of local reporters. Alastair Sloan reports
A club of censors at the United Nations
In a discretion well known to diplomatic circles, the United Nations so-called Committee on NGOs is meeting in New York this week. It is to select which NGOs fit the institution, Florian Irminger writes
