Index on Censorship joins with the Civic Solidarity Platform to condemn Belarus’ crackdown on peaceful protesters.
Belarus: Civic solidarity movement condemns mass detentions and police violence
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Weakening encryption would harm journalists
Encrypted communication tools are used by investigative journalists and reporters under fire, as well as businesses and governments, to have safe conversations and to report on difficult and often dangerous situations. Attempts by the UK government...
Belarus must immediately free and drop all charges against protesters
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Index on Censorship condemns the continued crackdown on protesters in Europe's last dictatorship. Belarusian authorities detained about 400 people over the weekend as Freedom Day demonstrations against the...
Belarus: Wave of detentions must end
Organisations have written to the president of Belarus to demand an end to recent wave of detentions of journalists, activists and opposition figures.
Bahrain: Opposition figure faces charges for free speech
Bahrain's decision to file charges against Ebrahim Sharif underscores the country's tactical use of judicial harassment to suppress freedom of speech. Ebrahim Sharif, the former secretary-general of the secular opposition group National Democratic...
Turkey’s deteriorating freedom of expression and media freedom
Index on Censorship, PEN International, ARTICLE 19 and 65 organisations are deeply concerned by the continuous deterioration of freedom of expression and media freedom in Turkey
Flemming Rose: Censorship and self-censorship in the 21st century
Danish journalist Flemming Rose delivered a lecture on 9 March 2017 as part of Censorship Awareness Week at Wellesley College.
Azerbaijan: Crackdown on free expression accelerates with conviction of prominent blogger
International organisations call on the Azerbaijani authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Mehman Huseynov.
Index on Censorship and Wellesley College launching an annual Freedom of Expression lecture
Leading international freedom of expression organisation Index on Censorship and the Freedom Project at Wellesley College, Boston, are pleased to announce the launch of a new partnership to promote awareness of censorship.
Russian supreme court orders release of Index Award nominee Ildar Dadin
The long-term opposition and LGBT rights activist had been jailed under Russia’s repressive Public Assembly Law.