Articles by Index on Censorship
![The OSCE's Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, opens a session on media freedom at the OSCE's Review Conference in Warsaw, Poland, 7 October 2010, OSCE/Curtis Budden](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/europe_dunja_mijatovic_osce.jpg)
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media warns of increasing attempts to regulate press
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.
![Norman Fowler, the new Lord Speaker, speaks in the House of Lords chamber, in London, 5 September 2016, REUTERS/Kirsty Wigglesworth/Pool](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/uk_house_of_lords_reuters.jpg)
Draft UK law empowers the wealthy and threatens independent journalism
Section 40 is part of the Crime and Courts Act 2013, which deals with a whole range of issues but also implemented some of the recommendations contained in the Leveson Report into phone hacking by newspapers.
![The Douma 4: Samira Al-Khalil, Nazim Hammadi, Razan Zaitouneh and Wa’el Hamada](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/douma-4.jpg)
Three years on and no word on Douma’s missing activists
The prominent Syrian human rights defenders Razan Zaitouneh, Samira Al-Khalil, Wa’el Hamada and Nazim Hammadi remain missing three years after armed men abducted them.
![The Douma 4: Samira Al-Khalil, Nazim Hammadi, Razan Zaitouneh and Wa’el Hamada](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/douma-4.jpg)
Three years on and no word on Douma’s missing activists
The prominent Syrian human rights defenders Razan Zaitouneh, Samira Al-Khalil, Wa’el Hamada and Nazim Hammadi remain missing three years after armed men abducted them.
![Imprisoned journalist Faisal Hayyat](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/faisalbahrain.jpg)
Bahrain must cease judicial harassment of Faisal Hayyat and other Bahraini journalists
48 human rights organizations have signed a letter asking King Hamad to cease its judicial harassment of human rights defenders and its violation of their right to freedom of expression.
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Parliament must defend health of Turkish democracy
Over 40 organisations call for Turkey’s national assembly to end the national state of emergency, extended for three months on October 19th.
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Turkey: State of emergency provisions violate human rights and should be revoked
Twenty-six NGOs are calling on the Government of Turkey to ensure that the state of emergency and the related emergency decrees are not tools to facilitate serious human rights violations and to silence dissent.
![A woman places flowers before a portrait of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, in Moscow, on 7 October 2009., AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/russia_anna_politkovskaya_7oct2016_apimages.jpg)
“It is not law that rules Russia today”: Remembering Anna Politkovskaya 10 years on
On the 10th anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya’s murder, Index on Censorship publishes her 2002 article for its magazine, where she wrote about threats made against her life.