Freedom of expression groups joined forces this month to investigate the obstacles facing independent media in Belarus; censorship made possible by the combination of a number of blunt-edged tools into a deceptively sophisticated system of media control. Rohan Jayasekera comments from Minsk.
Rohan Jayasekera on boundaries and Beuys in Bexhill-on-Sea
Index on Censorship calls on UN to defend rights of Iranian opposition group in Iraq
Rohan Jayasekera says rights advocates can learn from the single-minded political and military approach
Rohan Jayasekera on a crisis for the Caribbean press
Interesting debate at London’s Frontline Club on Tuesday on Sri Lanka. It was supposed to poll involved media views on the expected defeat of the LTTE Tamil Tiger separatists and – theoretically – the end of the country’s debilitating and...
Iraq began a year of elections with regional council votes in 14 governorates on Saturday. Yet more work has still to be done to guarantee a fair national dialogue on the issues – in the press, through the national media, the public broadcaster and...
There was a curious coda to the Tunisian government’s attempt to sabotage a debate on the parlous state of free expression in Tunisia, which tail-ended a conclave of journalists and publishers in Beirut at the weekend.
The independent Tunisian online magazine Kalima has suffered an attack that has completely destroyed its web content, and in a separate but related incident, its editor – Index Award winner Sihem Bensedrine – has been abused by police in the street.
Turkish publisher Ragıp Zarakolu, honoured by the International Publishers’ Association for his ‘exemplary courage in upholding freedom to publish’ this year, details the historical and political context behind repression of free speech in Turkey...
A conference tackling new forms of censorship goes online September 20, inviting readers all over the world the chance to cite examples of what the organisers call ‘neo-censorship’. Neo-censorship is a kind of control on opinion that moves beyond...
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