Index on Censorship

Queerpk, a website aimed at Pakistan’s queer community, was blocked by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority last month for being “against Islam.” The ban has not come as a big surprise to the LGBTQ community.

The Hungarian Ambassador to Austria has called for the cancellation of a “racist” and “anti-Hungarian” art exhibition which opened recently in the Austrian city of Linz.

Government crackdowns on free expression in China and Egypt have shown disturbing similarities.

The collision between climate science and energy politics, and threats to freedom of communication, are playing out differently in the United States and Canada.

Twenty-two human rights organisations and press freedom campaigners warn that Azerbaijan’s presidential election on 9 October may not be credible, as journalists and activists are routinely persecuted for criticising the government.

Hate speech, law and order, and mass panic are realities India’s states have been living with for years. It would appear that, in dealing with free expression on the internet, India’s politicians seem to err on the side of control.

IFEX members appeal to the King to end restrictions on news websites, nearly five months after Jordanian regulators blocked some 300 sites under a new licensing provision of the Press and Publications Law.

Ugandan artists have for a long time been able to read the public mood in the country and have taken note of it in their plays and songs. Under the military dictatorship of Idi Amin, a few brave artists expressed themselves through music and drama, but some authors of plays critical of the Amin regime were killed or forced into exile.