Index on Censorship

A spectre that has haunted Swedish journalism for decades is anti-democratic extremism, a phenomenon given new impetus by the rise of mainstream nationalist politics in recent years.

78 civil society groups condemn the crackdown on dissent in the lead up to elections in Cambodia and call on the government to cease their unlawful attacks on human rights defenders.

The undersigned organisations condemn in the strongest possible terms today’s sentencing of Mehman Huseynov, Azerbaijani journalist and chairman of the country’s leading freedom of expression group, Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety, to two years in jail on defamation charges. He was taken into custody from the court room, without being allowed to speak in […]

Index on Censorship’s annual report into media freedom in Europe shows journalists face regular harassment, legal sanctions and even jail for doing their job – even in supposed democracies.

The current mandate holder, Ms Dunja Mijatović, is due to leave the Office of OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media in a month’s time. And yet, to date, there has been no announcement of her successor.

Based in Nairobi for the past five years, British correspondent Jerome Starkey was detained without explanation at Nairobi airport on his return from a visit to the United Kingdom in December 2016 and was put on a flight back to London the next day.

25 IFEX members question Australia’s detention of dissident journalists, cartoonists and actors at Manus Island.

In recent years, there has been a perceptible increase in far-reaching restrictions on the media across the globe, warns Dunja Mijatović, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.