LONDON (Reuters) - Human rights groups accused Formula One on Wednesday of ignoring abuses allegedly related to the Bahrain Grand Prix, urging the...
Rights groups criticise Formula One over Bahrain stance (Reuters, 6 March 2019)
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CATEGORY: Index in the Press
Jodie Ginsberg on Uganda trying to censor its musicians and filmmakers (The World Tonight, BBC World Service, 26 February 2019)
Uganda’s government is proposing regulations that will affect all artists in the country. These include vetting new songs, videos and film...
Press freedom groups demand answers from Slovak authorities over failure to stop killing of investigative journalist (Press Gazette, 20 February 2019)
Press freedom groups and journalist organisations have pushed Slovak authorities to look into state failures to stop the murder of investigative...
Daphne Caruana Galizia’s death marked new trend – report (The Shift, 27 January 2019)
There is a distinct lack of awareness among decision makers about how bad the situation is for journalists reporting on corruption, according to...
London police has forced YouTube to delete over 100 UK drill music videos (Dazed, 15 February 2019)
YouTube continues to crack down on the drill scene as more music videos have been pulled down from the platform at the request of London’s police...
YouTube Deletes Dozens More Drill Music Videos at Request of London Police (Spin, 13 February 2019)
YouTube continues to delete music videos by drill artists in London at the request of a police unit that claims the videos incite violence,...
‘Persecution by a bully government’: Journalists, advocates slam arrest of Maria Ressa (Rappler, 13 February 2019)
Journalists and sectoral groups slammed the Duterte government for the arrest of Rappler CEO and executive editor Maria Ressa over cyber libel...
I don’t want to hide, says Rushdie, 30 years after fatwa (Straits Times, 13 February 2019)
After decades spent in the shadow of a death sentence pronounced by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Salman Rushdie is quietly defiant. Read the full...
Since when was it a police job to impose sanctions on drill musicians? (Guardian, 9 February 2019)
The authorities ban musicians from playing without official approval. The police prevent them from performing a song deemed unacceptable. The courts...
Novinare napadaju jer je to nekažnjivo (Vijesti, 6 February 2019)
Činjenica da oni koji prijete novinarima prolaze nekažnjeno, glavni je razlog i dalje velikog broja registrovanih slučajeva zastrašivanja medija u...
Index on Censorship in the press contains news and updates on Index campaigns and projects in media outlets. Index on Censorship also provides commentary to news organisations on free expression topics.