I wrote this letter during my time in prison. I don’t remember the exact date but it was in the middle of the Ukrainian crisis and the “trial” of Dilgam Askerov
CATEGORY: Ukraine
Belarus Free Theatre: “Dictators are scared of a strong mutual position”
Belarus Free Theatre have been using their creative and subversive art to protest the dictatorial rule of Aleksandr Lukashenko for over a decade.
Mapping Media Freedom: Week in review
Each week, Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout Europe
Mapping Media Freedom: Two years of uncovering attacks on Europe’s press
Mapping Media Freedom launched to the public on 24 May 2014. Two years on, the platform has verified over 1,800 media violations
Ukraine: Website leaks personal information of more than 4,000 journalists
Ukraine is again at the center of an international scandal. On 10 May Ukrainian website Myrotvorets, which publishes personal data of alleged separatists
April was busiest month on record for Mapping Media Freedom
April 2016 was the busiest month for Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom since the project began in May 2014
Ukraine: Journalists face violence on all fronts
Since October 2015, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project has recorded a total of 40 verified violations against press freedom in Ukraine, six of which took place in Crimea.
Media freedom in Europe needs action more than words
Freedom of expression is an assumed right in the European Union. But that assumption is little more than an idea anchored in our mental routine.
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Ukraine: No peace plan without accountability for human rights
President Petro Poroshenko 11 Bankova street 01220 Kyiv Ukraine 26 June 2014 Mr President, We, the undersigned members and partners of the Human...
Blunt instruments: Media repression in the Ukraine crisis
The sentencing of journalists for doing their jobs in Egypt has prompted an international outcry. But what happens when journalists are prevented from doing their jobs freely? Nicholas Williams reports
Ukraine: Poroshenko win a sign of national unity but not a final remedy
Ukrainians have a long way to go to ensure the Maidan protests change more than just the name of the president and faces of the governmental officials, writes Andrei Aliaksandrau
Three things we know about Ukraine’s media freedom crisis
Ukraine is seeing a “concerning pattern of grave violations of media freedom commitments” warns OSCE media freedom representative