Index on Censorship

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras announced that the state TV channel, ERT, would be shut down from midnight on 11 June. ERT journalists responded by occupying their buildings, and continuing to transmit wherever possible.

As the 14 June presidential election draws near, the eight qualified candidates are finding their campaigns being heavily censored. Iran’s ruling elite moved to slow internet connections and clamped down on circumvention tools long before the candidates were even announced.

IFEX members sent a joint letter to President Museveni calling for an end to impunity in cases of police violence against the media, after a violent crackdown on a demonstration in May over media closures.

Recent decisions by India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting have raised questions about the country’s approach to broadcasting regulation.

A campaign called ‘Tamarod’ has already gathered millions of signatures calling for the ousting of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi revealing a growing discontent with the country’s first post-revolution president

The Jordanian government began, on 2 June 2013, to block over 200 news websites for failing to register and obtain licenses under a recently amended and controversial Press and Publications Law.

An Egyptian Christian primary school teacher has gone into hiding after pupils accused her of blasphemy. Her case is the latest in a growing number of blasphemy cases against Egypt’s Coptic Christian community under the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Over 50 NGOs worldwide signed a joint appeal to the U.N. against the ill-treatment and torture of detained human rights defenders, activists and photojournalists in Bahrain, calling for U.N. and Red Cross visits.