Index on Censorship

IFEX members call on Brazil’s Congress to promptly pass the Marco Civil bill and on President Roussef to ensure its due implementation, as a measure to protect the right of Brazilians to an Internet that is free and open to all.

As the Right to Information movement in India has matured over the last decade, serious questions of privacy protection have also started making their way into public discourse.

Sudanese authorities recently shut down the country’s global internet for 24 hours, following protests against the lifting of state fuel and food subsidies.

Over 60 organisations signed a joint appeal to Moroccan authorities to free editor Ali Anouzla, jailed on 17 September for posting a link to an Al-Qaeda video on his news website alongside an article critical of the video.

Thousands of protesters gathered on 18 September in Athens near the place where Pavlos Fyssas was murdered by a Golden Dawn supporter.

A recently released film in South Korea set out to spark a discussion on free speech in the country, and amid opposition and cancelled viewings, it has done just that.

Sudan’s Public Order Law is making headlines after female activist and engineer Amira Osman was arrested on 27 August for refusing to pull up her headscarf. Amira is now facing trial for “indecent conduct” under Article 152 of the Sudanese penal code.

The NSA scandal has sparked an investigative journalism renaissance with virtually every major news organisation in the country—not just the keepers of the Snowden files—getting in on the act.