Index on Censorship

The abuse of national security and anti-terror laws to marginalise and censor free speech in Xinjiang, China are emphasised in the recent arrest of prominent Uyghur intellectual Ilham Tohti.

The United Arab Emirates stand accused of blocking criticism over their human rights record, according to international monitoring group Human Rights Watch.

If you live in Cuba, Iran or Sudan, and are using the increasingly popular online education tool Coursera, you are likely to encounter some access difficulties from this week onwards. Coursera has been included in the US export sanctions regime.

The Area Study Centre, at Peshwar University in Pakistan, was set to hold the launching of the book “I Am Malala” but called it off after the police informed its director that it would not oversee security.

195 civil society organisations from around the world have called on the UN to put government accountability and independent media at the centre of a new framework for global development.

Index on Censorship outlines the main problems in the certification of Indian films.

Jabeur Mejri has been in prison for nearly two years for posting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad on his Facebook page. He will soon be released, and will travel to Sweden where he has allegedly obtained political asylum.

In the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s disclosures, it has become imperative that the sociological impacts of surveillance be recognised and addressed directly, if societies are to protect each and every one of its participants from such endemic spying.