“There have been deaths in the country, there are members of the military involved in extrajudicial executions, there is a culture of murdering people.”
Wendy Funes defies pressures to silence Honduran journalists
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Ryan McChrystal
Ryan McChrystal
Assistant Online Editor at Index on Censorship
Ryan McChrystal is Assistant Editor, Online at Index on Censorship, where he provides support for the news and online team in addition to creating content. He has previously held various editorial roles, including as a local reporter, a market reporter and most recently as a features writer at an SME-focused magazine. He graduated in history and politics from Queen’s University, Belfast.
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Habari RDC working to see young people’s issues taken into account
“We will train our bloggers so that they will be better equipped to confront these issues, but also to enter into a dialogue with the decision-makers”
Museum of Dissidence: “We want to rebuild Cuba but change will not be easy”
The Museum of Dissidence, which won the Index Freedom of Expression Awards Fellowship for Arts, is supporting a new generation of artists in Cuba to challenge the status quo
Cuban artists arrested ahead of anti-censorship concert
Authorities arrested artists Yanelyz Nuñez and Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, MEMBERS OF THE from Otero Alcantara’s home sometime before 6:30am on Saturday 11 August
Nurcan Baysal: In colonised Kurdish society even the flowers can be labelled terrorists
When Turkish forces attacked Kurdish villages in the southeast of the country in 2016 after the collapse of a ceasefire between Ankara and the Kurdish Workers’ Party in July 2015, journalist Nurcan Baysal was there to document the human rights violations.
Gang members banned from making “drill” music
The Metropolitan Police sought an unprecedented Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) against the teenage and young adult defendants, prohibiting them from making music in the genre
Cuba’s first alternative art biennial: “We built an inclusive space of free creation and true collaboration”
Despite every effort to stop it in its tracks, Cuba saw the successful completion of its first independent art biennial, organised without the support of the state
Bahraini court upholds Nabeel Rajab’s five-year prison sentence
Bahrain’s High Criminal Court of Appeal has upheld a five-year conviction for human rights activist Nabeel Rajab for critical tweets made from his account
Students at Glasgow School of Art fight programme-sanctioned censorship
New rules urge students to exercise caution when it comes to “offensive” or “inappropriate” material and warn against “bringing the institution into disrepute”
Mapping Media Freedom: 2017 in review
This year saw 1,035 media freedom violations reported to Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom, a project that monitors media freedom in 42 countries, including all EU member states
#IndexAwards2017 fellows: “Governments don’t care about the human rights argument”
Since the Index on Censorship Awards, the 2017 fellows have been busy doing important work in their respective fields to further the cause of freedom of expression around the world
Labour Party conference: No place for a free press
During the Labour Party conference, the BBC political editor required bodyguards while two other journalists were barred from entering