Index on Censorship

Seventeen editors-in-chief of newspapers have pledged to refrain from criticizing the police, the military and the judiciary at this sensitive time when Egypt was “at war with terrorism.”

Tibet’s leader-in-exile discusses his Buddhist approach to digital security, and why he still holds hope for the future of the internet.

Index on Censorship joins the Civic Solidarity Platform’s call to the Council of Europe to put real pressure on Azerbaijan to release the human rights defenders and political activists who have been imprisoned on unfounded charges.

Journalism, the exercise of free expression, is a basic right both for practitioners and for the readers, viewers and listeners who benefit from it. They should be able to practice this right without fear of persecution. If they are to suffer, their oppressors must face justice.

That press freedom was a popular topic on the night did not comes as a surprise. Serbia has seen a string of censorship incidents during Vucic’s time in power, as Index and many others have reported.

On 30 October a Baku court sentenced opposition journalist Khalid Garayev to 25 days in detention on trumped-up charges of hooliganism and disobeying the police.

Censorship body gives green light to latest play from Index award nominee Lucien Bourjeily, despite being featured heavily in the work.

Against the backdrop of the unprecedented crackdown on civil society, Khadija Ismayilova’s arrest on criminal defamation charges seems imminent and would confirm the authorities’ intent to silence all critical voices in the country.