Media freedom has always been on European Union’s agenda. With funding from the EU, four organisations, including Index on Censorship, will tackle problems currently facing journalists and media personnel across Europe. Alice Kirkland reports
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
An Azerbaijani journalist, who spoke critically of the authorities on social media, has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison.
Ukraine is seeing a “concerning pattern of grave violations of media freedom commitments” warns OSCE media freedom representative
On the eve of the Ukrainian election, intellectuals gathered in Kiev to discuss the country’s ongoing crisis
Emeritus Yale University professor and author Peter Demetz was awarded the Jiri (George) Theiner prize at the Prague Literary Festival this year.
The message and tone of the “trigger warning” suggests a sad lack of faith in the power of art, and, by extension, humanity. We’re capable of better, writes Padraig Reidy
You can find support for the public’s right to access official information in the strangest places. Like a private EU policy paper draft. As leaked to and published by the whistle-blowers’ website Wikileaks. Rohan Jayasekara writes
On 12 May 2014, the Council of the European Union adopted the EU Human Rights Guidelines on Freedom of Expression: Online and Offline (Guidelines). The initiative to adopt the Guidelines, which provide “political and operational guidance” to EU...
Rik Ferguson argues that the right to be forgotten is not censorship in this essay offering a counterpoint to the Index position.