Journalists have been murdered and burned in effigy. Reporters have been publicly discredited by government officials, prosecuted for under anti-terrorism laws

Journalists have been murdered and burned in effigy. Reporters have been publicly discredited by government officials, prosecuted for under anti-terrorism laws
The Global Network Initiative welcomes the announcement that Google is appealing a French data protection authority ruling requiring the global take down
The government’s planned Counter-Extremism and Safeguarding Bill must be carefully crafted to avoid damaging freedom of expression.
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
The Formula One Group leadership should urge the Azerbaijani government to release unjustly imprisoned activists and journalists ahead of the European Grand Prix
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
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.
Index on Censorship condemns the clearly political sentencing of Can Dündar and Erdem Gül
On 7 April 2016, Bahrain’s foreign minister told the US State Department activist Zainab Al-Khawaja would be freed
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.