Europe was a bastion of hope for more than a million refugees last year. What brought them? A hunger for safety and security? Dreams of freedom?
15 June: Illiberal democracy: the future of freedom
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Difference Day: Should we celebrate or mourn press freedom?
Journalists and media professionals from across the world attended the World Press Freedom Day event at the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts.
Yavuz Baydar: Imminent collapse of journalism in Turkey
With conditions worsening on a daily basis, Turkey now risks total blackout on public debate. Punitive measures and harsh restrictions have diminished the domain for free and independent media
Azerbaijan: Independent media under unprecedented attack
The Sport for Rights coalition calls for the Azerbaijani authorities to take immediate and concrete steps to cease this persecution of the independent media, starting with the unconditional release of Khadija Ismayilova and Azerbaijan’s other political prisoners.
3 May: Difference Day celebrates freedom of the press
The debate will start from a bird’s eye view on the state of the art of journalism in Europe. Participants to the debate, including Index’s advocacy officer Melody Patry
Why is academic freedom important?
Academic freedom has been the subject of many debates in recent months. With speakers regularly being no-platformed
Letter: “The need for serious reforms…is as urgent as ever”
In a letter, writer Akram Aylisli writer asked the president of Azerbaijan to intervene and remove the criminal case against him.
Azerbaijan: Akram Aylisli faces further charges after sending letter to president
The case against Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli, who previously faced charges of hooliganism after being detained at Baku Haydar Aliyev International Airport on 30 March
Azerbaijan: Harassment of Meydan TV must stop
Index on Censorship strongly condemns the launch of a criminal investigation into online media outlet Meydan TV.
Poland: Scholar questioned over claim Poles killed more Jews than they did Germans during World War II
A Polish prosecutor has interrogated Jan Gross, a Polish-American professor of history at Princeton University