A media that paints puritans and fanatics as mainstream forfeits its right to condemn them, writes Alex Gabriel
Media must end its love affair with religious censors
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Putin’s Russia: Censoring anti-invasion sentiment
Censorship of anti-war sentiment in Russia now uses a mixture of state-sponsored media attacks, arms-length loyalists, crooked think tanks and legal strong-arming – but is it working? Alastair Sloan reports
Gambia: Jammeh promises to implement reforms
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has bowed to EU pressure to implement political reforms — including changing the country’s restrictions on the media, Buya Jammeh reports
Criminalising kink: Cameron’s porn crusade
The UK government is sneaking through a vast extension to pornographic prohibition. It’s so vaguely worded that it could cover 50 Shades of Grey (if filmed), Game of Thrones or Florentine statues. Jonathan Lindsell reports
Cambridge University Press is afraid of the Russians
A recent study of Vladimir Putin’s gangster tendencies has been suppressed: not by the Kremlin, but by a UK academic publisher living in fear of England’s libel laws, writes Padraig Reidy
Data retention and legality: The fall of the EU’s Data Retention Directive
EU officials should have seen it coming. In December, the Advocate General of the ECJ was already of the opinion that the DRD constituted “a serious interference” with privacy, Binoy Kampmark writes
Homophobic rant by radio host highlights Greece’s gay rights problem
Journalists Dimos Verikios said there is a “dictatorship of the gay minority” and gay people should be “treated” by members of Golden Dawn, writes Christos Syllas
The right to protest! The right to fight?
An Index event on freedom of assembly, in association with Sussex University Politics Society
The bill that helps British ministers break the law
The British government is making it easier for those in power to break the law – and it’s using a fantasy about left-wing pressure groups to justify it, Alex Stevenson reports
Corruption and suppression: Adaptation based on a true story
Playwright and author Meltem Arikan guides you on an exploration of a corruption scandal enveloping a country, by imagining the UK as Turkey