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Pakistan: Minister for minorities assassinated

Shahbaz Bhatti, the minister for religious minorities has been assassinated . Bhatti, a Christian, was a vocal opponent of the controversial...

KGB attempted to recruit Belarusian journalist

by Index on Censorship | 02 Mar 11

Index on Censorship award nomineee Natalia Radzina of Belarus's Charter 97 has revealed that the KGB tried to recruit her as an informant. She...

China: Crackdown on demonstrators and journalists

by Mohammad Fakhar Zaman | 01 Mar 11

The police has come down hard on Chinese demonstrators, detaining and putting under arrest hundreds of activists and human rights campaigners....

Russian journalist fired over Hitler comparison

by Laura MacPhee | 01 Mar 11

Dmitry Gubin was dismissed from Vesti FM radio station on Friday, after criticising the St Petersburg Governor, Valentina Matviyenko, on his morning...

Opposition leaders arrested in Iran

by Mohammad Fakhar Zaman | 01 Mar 11

Opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi and their wives have been arrested and taken to the Heshmatiyeh jail in Tehran, it has...

Turkish journalist imprisoned for criticising mayor

by Laura MacPhee | 01 Mar 11

Journalist Ahmet Topcu has been sentenced to 11 months in jail for denouncing a proposal put forward by the Mayor of Rize, in north east Turkey. The...

Anti-abortion billboard removed in New York

by Laura MacPhee | 01 Mar 11

A billboard proclaiming a pro-life message has been taken down following complaints. The advertisement was displayed in SoHo on behalf of the Life...

Journalists arrested in Nepal

by Index on Censorship | 28 Feb 11

Chief editor Ram Pukar Raut, and editor Pravin Sharma Jha, of the New Times Today have been arrested by police in the Southern Nepalese district of...