Category: <span>Index Index</span>

Sri Lanka: Press freedom bill rejected

by Sarah Cox | 22 Jun 11

A bid for greater media freedom put forward by opposition parties in Sri Lanka has been rejected by the ruling party led by President Mahinda...

Bahrain: Eight activists and opposition leaders jailed for life

by Judith Townend | 22 Jun 11

Eight Shia activists and opposition leaders have been sentenced to life imprisonment in Bahrain. They have been found guilty of plotting a coup in...

UK: Parliament Square protester Brian Haw dies

by Sarah Cox | 21 Jun 11

Parliament Square peace campaigner, Brian Haw, died of lung cancer at the weekend while receiving treatment for the disease in Germany. Haw began...

Pakistan: Guardian journalist beaten by men in police uniforms

by Sarah Cox | 21 Jun 11

Guardian journalist Waqar Kiani has claimed that he was abducted and tortured by Pakistani intelligence agents on Saturday night. The alleged...

Jordan: News agency stormed after reporting on attack on King Abdallah

by Sarah Cox | 21 Jun 11

On Saturday the Agence France-Presse bureau in Amman was attacked. The office was reportedly stormed by a dozen men armed with clubs who smashed...

Belarus: Human rights activist reportedly “tortured” in prison

by Sarah Cox | 17 Jun 11

Human rights activist, Mikita Likhavid, is being tortured in prison according to claims made by the Belarus opposition group Youth Front. In March...

Foreign activists attacked in Azerbaijan

by Index on Censorship | 17 Jun 11

American journalist Amanda Erickson and British activist Celia Davies Carys were followed home and beaten by four men on 15 June in Baku. The women...

Sierra Leone: Policeman arrested over journalist’s death

by Index on Censorship | 17 Jun 11

A policeman was arrested yesterday (16 June) as the key suspect in the killing of Ibrahim Foday, a journalist for Exclusive newspaper. Foday was...

Belarus: Journalist faces four years in prison for “insulting the president”

by Index on Censorship | 16 Jun 11

Andrey Pochobut, a correspondent for the Polish newspaper GazetaWyborcza who stands accused of defamation and “insulting the president”, is facing a...

Bahrani government to sue the Independent for libel

by Emily Butselaar | 14 Jun 11

Bahrain's Information Affairs Authority today announced it has commissioned a UK-based legal firm to file a defamation case against the Independent...