The whole system that should ensure a functioning public opinion in Belarus is perverted, writes
Does public opinion exist in Belarus?
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Controversy on campus: six university speakers that caused outrage
As the body representing UK vice-chancellors releases new guidelines on external speakers on campuses, we look at some cases where they could have been put to use
Nominations open for Czech literary prize
Nominations are now open for a writing award for people and organisations contributing to the profile of Czech literature around the world. The award, set up to commemorate a former editor of Index on Censorship, is presented at the Prague Book Fair in May.
Hacks, hacking and propaganda: what’s happening to Turkey’s journalists?
Turkey’s media proprietors seem all too willing to play along with practices that make the country feel like a corrupt central Asian republic, says Yavuz Baydar
Denmark: arrest and protest as reading by controversial poet goes ahead
Yahya Hassan has caused nationwide debate with his poetry, which is critical of Islam and parts of the Danish immigrant community
Twenty-four hour arty people
Julia Farrington hits the north for the Art Party conference
European Union to further reduce the UN human rights budget
In a joint letter to Baroness Catherine Ashton, High Representative for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, Index on Censorship has joined 66 human rights NGOs from European Union member States, States...
Stop Digital Arms campaign launched
Dutch MEP Marietje Schaake has launched a campaign that aims to stop European businesses selling surveillance equipment to authoritarian regimes. In an email, Schaake explained: "It is unacceptable that EU made technologies are still exported,...
On Leveson, language and topsy-turviness
A response to the Media Standards Trust’s Martin Moore
French magazine raises specter of racism and press freedoms
An obscure 16 page-long French far-right magazine recently put France’s black justice minister Christiane Taubira on its cover, comparing her to a monkey. Valeria Costa-Kostritsky reports on the fallout