Barack Obama has promised to run the most transparent administration in history. He could make a good start by opening the government’s files on torture, says Jameel Jaffer In 1971, the US Supreme Court held that the government could not lawfully...
Harassment of reporters such as Sihem Bensedrine (right) shows that Tunisia leads the way in suppression of free expression, writes Rohan Jayasekera There's an old proverb that ‘a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its...
Government data retention plans will make life difficult for Britain's investigative journalists, says Bill Thompson The UK government’s decision to press forward with implementation of the European Union directive on data retention by...
Coverage of events in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli media has rarely transcended propaganda, writes Dimi Reider When I was in journalism school, we were taught that truth was the first casualty of any war. But in the current seismic violence in the...
China’s greatest artist, Ai Weiwei, caused controversy in the summer when he announced he would stay away from the Olympic Games, despite being the creative mind behind Beijing’s Bird’s Nest Stadium.
In an exclusive interview for Index on Censorship‘s ‘Made in China issue’, he told Simon Kirby about challenging state censorship and the status quo.
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On the anniversary of the murder of independent journalist Deyda Hydara (right), Dawn Starin says the media must turn its attention to The Gambia, where free expression is increasingly under threat A few weeks ago, David and Fiona Fulton, a British...
English PEN and Index on Censorship are launching a public inquiry into libel legislation. The decision reflects increasing concern in this country and abroad about the extent to which our courts are being used, and abused, to stifle investigative...
A nuclear whistleblower and BBC journalists are being unjustly pursued, says Chris Ames Why is the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigating a customs official who embarrassed the security services over nuclear proliferation? As...
In this celebration of the 60th anniversary of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, AC Grayling says freedom of speech is the most precious of rights - giving us the chance of being fully human Most human rights instruments...
Memorial's historical archive must be restored immediately. An open letter from Orlando Figes and some of the world's leading academics Dmitrii Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation Valentina Matvienko, Governor of St Petersburg Vladimir...