Index on Censorship

Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi has been arrested and charged with sedition for displaying cartoons allegedly mocking the Indian Constitution.

As trial proceeds, over forty IFEX members urge the Cambodian government to drop charges facing detained rights defender and broadcaster Mam Sonando.

“The Kremlin will [soon] have at its disposal the facilities for blocking access to Internet resources across the whole of Russia,” says security services expert Andrey Soldatov.

A global deficiency in gender equality goes hand in hand with a lack of free expression, as spelled out through trends in political representation, education, and political participation, says Index on Censorship.

IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group protests government appointments at media outlets, as well as mounting attacks on journalists, writers and artists.

The Indian government banned SMS messages directed to more than five recipients and ordered ISPs to block websites held guilty of hosting highly inflammatory content on the recent violence.

Leading up to the 10 October, 2012 appeal, tell the Russian authorities to release Russian punk band Pussy Riot members who were found guilty of “hooliganism,” and sentenced to two years in jail.

Three members of the punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in jail for “hooliganism”, in a case IFEX members say is a blow to free expression in Russia.