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
Yahya Hassan has caused nationwide debate with his poetry, which is critical of Islam and parts of the Danish immigrant community
Julia Farrington hits the north for the Art Party conference
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...
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,...
A response to the Media Standards Trust’s Martin Moore
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
On the eve of the International Day To End Impunity, we look back at the journalists intimidated, attacked and killed in 2013
Andrei Soldatov looks at the websites authorities have been censoring over the past months
Former Soviet countries use the vague charge to crack down on protest and dissent, Padraig Reidy writes