Category: <span>Index Index</span>

China: journalist detained, beaten after reporting riots

Translated screenshots from journalist Lu Chaoguo's Tencent microblog account reveal his detention and mistreatment by police after reporting on...

China: social media response to Wenzhou crash challenges censorship

by Marta Cooper | 29 Jul 11

The potent reaction from both Chinese netizens and mainstream media in response to Sunday's deadly train crash in Wenzhou has shown how the state's...

Afghanistan: journalist killed in Taliban attack

by Index on Censorship | 29 Jul 11

Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, a stringer working for the BBC in Afghanistan, has been killed during a Taliban raid on a TV station in Uruzgan province,...

Guinea: censorship measures put pressure on RFI

by Marta Cooper | 29 Jul 11

Guinea's state-controlled media regulatory agency this week imposed a "temporary" ban on media coverage of the 19 July attack on the private...

Kyrgyzstan: government bans news websites ahead of election campaign

by Marta Cooper | 29 Jul 11

Kyrgyzstan's Central Elections Committee (CEC) has decided to bar web-based news media from participating in the campaign ahead of the 30th October...

News of the World hacked Sarah Payne’s mother’s phone

by Laura MacPhee | 28 Jul 11

The Guardian has revealed that the News of the World hacked Sara Payne's phone, which Rebekah Brooks had given her as a gift. Payne had previously...

Lebanon: singer detained for defamation

by Marta Cooper | 28 Jul 11

Lebanese musician Zeid Hamdan was briefly held at the prison of the Palace of Justice in Beirut on Wednesday for defaming President Michel Suleiman,...

Brazil: controversial Serbian film banned from RioFan festival

by Marta Cooper | 28 Jul 11

The controversial 'A Serbian Film' has been banned from being screened at the RioFan film festival by the event's main sponsor, Brazilian national...

Mexico: missing crime reporter found dead

by Marta Cooper | 27 Jul 11

The decapitated body of Yolanda Ordaz, a reporter for regional paper Notiver, has been found in the Mexican city of Veracruz two days after she went...

Malawi: journalists beaten and detained to prevent them covering protests

by Marta Cooper | 25 Jul 11

Reporters Without Borders has revealed several journalists covering Malawi's recent protests have been beaten and detained, while the government has...