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No.1 / 2009
2009-01-01

Satirist beaten in jail

 Azerbaijani satirist and government critic Sakit Zakhidov, known by his pen name, Mirza Sakit, was brutally beaten in jail on 18 October, local media activists have told Index on Censorship.
2008-10-21

New issue of Index on Censorship out now

 Index on Censorship: I know it when I see it From Ulysses to Last Exit to Brooklyn, obscenity trials are a benchmark for the limits of cultural tolerance. As the first prosecution of the written word in more than 30 years takes place in the UK, Index on Censorship assesses the landscape. Are we becoming […]
2008-03-06

Reporters sentenced to hard labour

 A court in Baku, Azerbijan, has sentenced two journalists to hard labour following their conviction for libel. The charges related to articles they published in 2007 regarding alleged corruption in government circles.
2008-01-30

Ukraine: The politics of hunger

 The battle over the legacy of the Ukranian famine threatens to divide the country, writes Michael Foley So often that which politicians hope will unite their countries does exactly the opposite. The legacy of the famines which devasted Ukraine in the 1930s might do just that. Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko is to campaign internationally for […]
2008-01-16

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2007-10-27

Wrestling with genocide

 Truth, notoriously, is the first casualty of war. The truth about the fate of Armenians living under Ottoman rule in 1915 may not be dead yet, but it has certainly wilted in the glare of Washington lobby politics. What should be the subject of solemn commemoration, has instead become the subject of a Mexican standoff, […]
2007-10-18

Talk nice and behave yourself for the good of others

 What was initially billed as a celebration of the importance of religious and cultural tolerance and understanding turned into something a bit harder edged when the 56 nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) held a major conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov voices pride in his country as a ‘land of […]
2007-04-30