Nouritza Matossian remembers Armenian journalist and campaigner Hrant Dink, who was murdered on this day (19 January) in 2007
Turkey: “We will continue to build on his hopes and dreams”
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Britain: Matters of Decency
The parliamentary debate on "violent pornography" is in danger of allowing personal tastes to overshadow compelling, factual arguments, writes Julian Petley In June 2007, the government introduced its 54th Criminal Justice Bill. This puts 19 new...
Ukraine: The politics of hunger
The battle over the legacy of the Ukranian famine threatens to divide the country, writes Michael Foley So often that which politicians hope will unite their countries does exactly the opposite. The legacy of the famines which devasted Ukraine in...
New attempt to end blasphemy law
Liberal Democrat MP Dr Evan Harris will tomorrow table an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill calling for the abolition of ‘blasphemous libel’. Here, Terry Sanderson of the National Secular Society explains why such a crime has...
Russia: Elections of the absurd
Coverage of the recent Duma poll and forthcoming presidential race suggests that Russian media increasingly only functions to endorse the government line, writes Oleg Panfilov On 12 December, Vladimir Putin had an official meeting with the Chairman...
Sudan: The great teddy bear fiasco
Gillian Gibbons’s recent imprisonment in Sudan led Albaqir A Mukhtar to ask if the Khartoum government is protecting Islam or defiling it The naming of a teddy bear after a pupil, and not after the Prophet of Islam, is for all intents and purposes...
Britain: ‘What people take offence at, or chose to be offended by, will always be unpredictable’
Last week, Stephen Green of conservative religious group Christian Voice failed in his attempt to have the BBC charged with blasphemy for its broadcast of Jerry Springer The Opera. Stewart Lee, who devised the musical with composer Richard Thomas,...
Russia: Protesters under pressure
Vladimir Putin is ultimately responsible for last weekend's oppression of political demonstrations, writes Oksana Chelysheva There are two Russias nowadays. One is of Putin, with his images on every other bill board, trying hard to crush, scare and...
Pakistan: Coping with censorship
As President Musharraf announces that he will end Pakistan's state of emergency on 16 December, Shirin B Sadeghi looks at how the media has responded to the crackdown When President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency on 3 November, one...
Britain: Choices, not rights
The row over whether David Irving and Nick Griffin should speak at the Oxford Union is not an argument about freedom of speech, writes Padraig Reidy "Hello. I'm calling from Index on Censorship, and I'd like to come along to your Free Speech Forum...