Index on Censorship

After 42 years of political oppression in Libya, it was hoped that the apparatus of Gaddafi’s regime would be dismantled after he was swept from power.

Kenya’s media are preparing to launch a challenge to a new system of regulation introduced by President Uhuru Kenyatta. Early this month, journalists instructed senior lawyer Mr. James Aggery Orengo, who is also a senator, to file a petition challenging the Kenya Information and Communication Amendment Bill 2013.

A Bible-based play by acclaimed comedy group The Reduced Shakespeare company has been pulled from the stage after protests from Christian fundamentalists. According to UTV, the company was due to perform The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged), at the Theatre At the Mill in Newtownabbey in Northern Ireland next week at the beginning of a U.K. tour.

South Korea is embroiled in a “textbook war” over what high school students learn in history class. With schools selecting their textbooks for the coming academic year, objections have been raised to one textbook that critics felt distorted the country’s history of Japanese occupation and military dictatorship.

The “social media revolutions” once had tyrants fearing their imminent demise. Now Twitter users from Marrakech to Manama know — call for political reforms, joke about a sensitive topic, or expose government abuse and you could end up in jail.

A new campaign argues that current policy hinders Sudanese citizens’ free access to knowledge and information online, as well as tools like crowdsourcing and crisis mapping.

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on Express Media that claimed the lives of three media workers; the group has issued a fatwa (decree) warning of further attacks against media outlets that they say are providing “misinformation” against them.

Following the criminalisation of peaceful protest in Egypt in November 2013, 57 organisations and individuals release joint statement against arrests of Egyptian bloggers and political activists.