Index on Censorship

Journalists were attacked by pro-Morsi protesters as the trial of the deposed president and 14 other Muslim Brotherhood leaders opened in Cairo on the morning of 4 November 2013.

Curator Danah Abdullah was told that the work of artist Ghada Wali was too politicised and did not fit in with the rest of her exhibition at P21 Gallery in London. When Abdullah kept pushing the issue, it was suggested she alter the posters to remove text that could be perceived as controversial.

Anger at the new series of Satirist Bassem Youssef’s TV show reflects the country’s deepening divisions.

Just days before the United Nation’s led Internet Governance Forum in Indonesia, India, held its own – and first of its kind – conference on cyber governance and cyber security, Index on Censorship’s Mahima Kaul writes.

Rana Tanveer, a Pakistani reporter at the English daily, Express Tribune, recieved a one-page letter earlier this month terming him an apostate and accusing him of writing in favour of minority groups in Pakistan. It warned him that if he did not desist, he would be killed.

In a letter to the president of Lithuania and the president of the European Council, Index on Censorship and 39 other NGOS call upon leaders of the European Union to discuss the issue of mass surveillance at the European Council meeting on 24 and 25 October.

The question anyone who defends free speech gets asked most frequently is “Where do you draw the line?” The announcement by Facebook on 22 October 2013 that it will allow users to post videos of beheadings is bound to raise that question.

Press freedom groups join the Hong Kong Journalists Association to condemn the banning of Hong Kong reporters from covering Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in Indonesia in early October.