Rappler CEO Maria Ressa has been given a sentence of up to six years in prison under a cyber libel law that didn’t exist when the article in question was published
We have joined with 71 other press freedom organisations to write to the President of the United States to call on him to condemn recent attacks on the media
Index welcomes release of Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab on Tuesday but all charges against him must also be dropped
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The problem: gag lawsuits against public interest defenders The EU must end gag lawsuits used to silence...
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Launch of the 2020 Annual Report by Index on Censorship and other partner organisations to the Council of Europe Platform to Promote the Protection of Journalism and Safety of Journalists
Index on Censorship’s Rachael Jolley writes in Eurozine on the trajectory of the BBC from facing criticism from the government pre-coronavirus to praise for their current reporting
Index on Censorship’s Rachael Jolley talks to BBC News’ Gareth Mitchell and Ghislaine Boddington about Index’s mapping media freedom project
Index on Censorship’s Jemimah Steinfeld writes in Eurozine on the importance of mapping media freedom violations during the coronavirus crisis
Index on Censorship’s Rachael Jolley writes in the New Statesman about the recent attacks on media freedom and why it’s crucial to record them.
The spring 2020 Index on Censorship magazine podcast with Mary Ellen Klas, Moa Petersén and Noelle Mateer discusses surveillance in China, the Swedish trend to put microchips under the skin and the worsening media environment in the USA as a result of coronavirus
The winners of the Freedom of Expression Awards 2020 include a Turkish lawyer, Bahraini activist and Russian artist, plus two organisations fighting for freedoms in Palestine and Poland