Call comes as Council receives the report of the UN special rapporteur on the situation regarding human rights in the country
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Index on Censorship announces shortlist for 2021 Freedom of Expression Awards
Imprisoned Egyptian human rights campaigner, Russian feminist performance artist, and persecuted Djiboutian journalists among the shortlisted candidates
Myanmar keeps it poets locked up despite prisoner release
Maung Yu Py, a well known name in Burmese poetry circles, remains in Myeik prison despite the release of 2,300 anti-coup protestors
Fourteen organisations call for the immediate and unconditional release of journalist and human rights defender Andrei Aliaksandrau
Former Index on Censorship staff member faces up to 15 years in prison
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Former Index staff member faces charges of high treason
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Government’s Online Safety Bill will be “catastrophic for ordinary people’s freedom of speech” says David Davis MP
Leading experts brand Government’s Bill “catastrophic” at press conference today
As Apple Daily looks set to close down, speech crime comes to Hong Kong
The national security law has been used against journalists for the first time
Burkina Faso’s media freedom under attack
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Burkina Faso is supposedly one of Africa’s gems when it comes to press freedom. In a continent full of countries...
Whistleblower Jonathan Taylor releases further allegations of corruption
Former SBM Offshore employee releases details of multimillion dollar payoffs to a Panamanian company following a cancelled BP deal
Pentagon Papers: Daniel Ellsberg speaks 50 years on
It is five decades since a government whistleblower leaked a 7,000-page report into US involvement in Vietnam