29 Oct 2009 | News
Coincidence or serendipity? Index on Censorship has found itself oddly placed by legal developments in a long running spat between Israeli and UK human rights activists and the Israeli Medical Association (IMA).
Physicians for Human Rights in Israel (PHRI) and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) accuse the IMA of failing to properly investigate reports that some Israeli doctors had overseen the torture of Palestinians by Israeli security forces.
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12 Oct 2009 | News
An international conference on press freedom in Vienna, reports Andrei Soldatov, included a suprising guest: a Russian security service agent.
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9 Oct 2009 | News
Herta Müller has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In this interview published in Index on Censorship, she discusses the death of free expression in Ceauşescu’s Romania
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22 Sep 2009 | Index Index, minipost, News
On 19 September the Swedish newspaper Aftonbadet was cleared of anti-semitism charges by the Sweden’s Chancellor of Justice. The Israeli government had called on Swedish authorities to investigate a story that Aftonbadet published in August. The story alleged that Israeli soldiers had harvested body parts of dead Palestinians for sale. Chancellor of Justice Goran Lambertz is the only prosecutor in Sweden authorised to take legal action in cases concerning freedom of speech. (The Guardian)
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