Journalists have been murdered and burned in effigy. Reporters have been publicly discredited by government officials, prosecuted for under anti-terrorism laws
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GNI welcomes appeal to the global reach of “the right to be forgotten”
The Global Network Initiative welcomes the announcement that Google is appealing a French data protection authority ruling requiring the global take down
UK government must ensure it protects free speech with new counter-extremism plans
The government’s planned Counter-Extremism and Safeguarding Bill must be carefully crafted to avoid damaging freedom of expression.
UAE: Free human rights defender Dr Nasser Bin Ghaith
We, the undersigned NGOs, call on the authorities to immediately release human rights defender and professor of economics Dr Nasser Bin Ghaith, who remains in detention
Azerbaijan: Free prisoners before Baku Grand Prix race
The Formula One Group leadership should urge the Azerbaijani government to release unjustly imprisoned activists and journalists ahead of the European Grand Prix
Julia Farrington: Tackling self-censorship in the arts community
To fully participate in society and to create art that calls power to account, the arts community needs to continue to identify, analyse and tackle the causes of self-censorship
BBC appointments process must be clear and transparent
In restructuring the governance structure of the British Broadcasting Corporation, it is vital that the government ensures the corporation’s independence and role as a public broadcaster not a state broadcaster.
Truth and the public interest are forbidden in Turkey
Index on Censorship condemns the clearly political sentencing of Can Dündar and Erdem Gül
Bahrain: “Release Zainab Al-Khawaja with no further delay”
On 7 April 2016, Bahrain’s foreign minister told the US State Department activist Zainab Al-Khawaja would be freed
Azerbaijan: Independent media under unprecedented attack
The Sport for Rights coalition calls for the Azerbaijani authorities to take immediate and concrete steps to cease this persecution of the independent media, starting with the unconditional release of Khadija Ismayilova and Azerbaijan’s other political prisoners.