The Russian authorities are taking a heavy-handed approach to web monitoring, writes Maria Eismont ‘Error. The website you’ve requested either doesn’t exist, or is overloaded.’ This announcement greeted visitors to the electronic version of Russian...
Academic Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom was last week stripped of his honorary post at University College London, after his controversial views on the Holocaust and 9/11 were uncovered by bloggers. Was the university right to disassociate itself from him,...
Mohamed Al-Daradji’s film Ahlaam (Dreams) won the Index on Censorship Film Award last Monday. He was interviewed by the BBC World Service's World Today about the award and the film. Click below to listen. Mohamed Al-Daradji interview
Francisco Goldman accepts the Index on Censorship TR Fyvel Book Award for his work, The Art of Political Murder: Who killed Bishop Gerardi?. The culmination of years of investigative journalism, The Art of the Political Murder is an astonishing...
Choosing which film should win the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression award was a tough process for the judges, writes Lemn Sissay I've been led down the winding stairs into a gloomy room in the basement of an east London office block. It's...
Would an Olympic boycott really inspire China to improve its human rights record and its dealings with Tibet? Or would it make things worse, asks Nick Young Tibet’s Himalayan neighbours in Bhutan and Nepal are beginning to build political...
Should publications only run ads that match their principles, asks Peter Wilby Many readers and some journalists believe editors should apply the same principles to advertising as they do to editorial copy. If an ad is violently at variance with...
The Simpsons has been taken off Venezuelan television. Is this because the regime doesn't like the programme, or because they just don't get it, asks Daniel Duquenal In the latest media silliness from Venezuela, censors have asked TV station...
The increasingly farcical Olympic torch relay made its way to California yesterday. Lucie Morilllon of Reporters Without Borders was there After the London and Paris demonstrations that disrupted the Olympics torch relay and angered Chinese...
A new Indonesian law poses the threat of restrictions on the arts, writes David Jardine The Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR), after very lengthy debate, has passed into law a bill aimed at outlawing online pornography --- this despite the...