Articles by Index on Censorship
United Arab Emirates’ cybercrimes regulation strategically silencing critics
In the United Arab Emirates, a series of show trials and convictions against online activists highlight an authoritarian regime’s attempts to quell growing dissent among a repressed citizenry.
We must demand an end to the culture of impunity
On the eve of the International Day To End Impunity, Index on Censorship looks back at the journalists intimidated, attacked and killed in 2013.
India: Digital freedom under threat?
An Index on Censorship policy paper explores the main digital issues and challenges affecting freedom of expression in India today and offers some recommendations to improve digital freedom in the country.
Macedonia: “Critical media is vanishing”
Following the arrest of a journalist on espionage charges, the heads of Macedonia’s journalist association and trade union explain the decline of the country’s media freedom
Belarus: Cultural censorship as state policy
Art helps to inform and educate people – and this is exactly what irritates the authorities. They prefer ignorant citizens that are easier to rule, and they use censorship to prevent people from thinking and questioning the reality presented by official propaganda.
Inept or clever? Vietnam’s censors keep everyone guessing
Vietnam’s government keeps cultural activities from web comics to concerts under its watchful eye, for sex as much as sedition.
Why data localisation mandates are not the answer to the problem of global surveillance
Data localisation requirements would fracture the Internet and could facilitate control, intimidation and oppression.
Surveillance revelations take centre stage at global Internet summit
Activists went head to head with government representatives as mass surveillance dominated discussions at the 2013 Internet Governance forum.