It started with an arrest so farcical the facts seem to defy belief. In October, a 27-year-old man on the Greek island of Evia was arrested and...
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Internet freedom? Not in Azerbaijan
IGF | Azerbaijan’s government locks up its online critics on trumped-up charges so it is an odd choice to host a giant international forum on internet freedom. Rebecca Vincent explains
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Polish rocker faces religious offence charge
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“Journalists will be persecuted until power in Russia changes”
Mikhail Afanasyev is a veteran of the libel courts. As one of the few independent journalists in Russia’s Urals he has faced 13 defamation suits in...
Greece: Free speech faces abyss
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Former Belarusian presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov gets UK asylum
Andrei Sannikov, a former political prisoner from Belarus, has been granted asylum in the UK. Sannikov told the Charter97 website: It was not a...
INDEX INTERVIEW: “Punk prayer is not a crime,” says released Pussy Riot member
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