The controversy followed reporting of alleged hazing at an all-male and secretive sporting club, the Knights of the Campanile
Ireland: Students at Trinity College vote against proposition to defund University Times
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Ireland: Trinity College newspaper faces closure over investigation into all-male student society
The initiation ceremony, or “hazing”, was seemingly meted out to those invited to become members of the Knights of the Campanile, an invitation-only sporting society, based on similar bodies at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
Seizure of journalists’ equipment by police raises concerns for Spanish press freedom
Journalists see the seizure of smartphones by judicial and police as a violation of Spain’s Constitution.
Council of Europe annual report: Media freedom in Europe
Press freedom is more fragile now than at any time since the end of the Cold War. That is the conclusion of a report by the 12 partner organisations of the Council of Europe platform to promote the protection of journalism and safety of journalists.
Frederike Geerdink: Muslims systematically framed negatively in Dutch newspapers
Historian Tayfun Balcik has been building a database showing how often the word terrorism is used in combination with Muslim, and how Muslim women are represented in four Dutch newspapers.
Index renews calls for Azerbaijan to release journalist Afgan Mukhtarli
Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Mukhtarli fled the country in fear in 2014 but in May 2017 he vanished while in Tbilisi, Georgia, and reappeared the following day back in his home country
Project Exile: Vietnam journalist went to France after six years in prison
“The problems started when I did not confess to any crimes and when I refused to wear the prison uniform”
Doing their masters’ bidding: Media smear campaigns in central and eastern Europe
Unpatriotic behaviour. Sedition. Being in the pay of shadowy external forces. Faking a neo-Nazi event. These are just a few of the charges that have recently been levelled against independent journalists by pro-government media outlets in several central and eastern European countries.
Spain: “Purge” at state-owned RTVE following political pressure
The reform of Spanish public television and radio RTVE exposes how political interests dominate the corporation
Austria: A nation shrouded in secrecy
In an email sent to all regional police departments on 24 September 2018, Austria’s Ministry of the Interior suggested limiting communication with “certain media outlets”, including the weekly news magazine Falter and the daily newspaper Der Standard
Letter: Serbian media facing “very difficult” situation
Five Serbian media associations have written to Index on Censorship to raise their concerns about the media environment in the country.
Maltese journalist Caroline Muscat continues in the spirit of her murdered colleague Daphne Caruana Galizia
On 16 October 2017 Malta’s most important investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered in Malta. Three men will stand trial for carrying out the crime but the masterminds remain untouched, rendering Malta an unsafe place for independent journalists. Journalist Caroline Muscat refuses to get distracted by that.
