Index on Censorship, the European Federation of Journalists and Reporters Without Borders are delighted to announce the expansion and redesign of Mapping Media Freedom, which records threats to journalists across Europe.
South Africa’s government is seeking to adapt the country’s post-Apartheid Film and Publications Act of 1996 for the 21st century. Raymond Joseph explores the impact on freedom of expression.
The UK government should look to what is happening to free expression in Egypt and Turkey before broadening terrorist laws to include those who “spread hate”.
The anti-terror charges against reporters for Vice News in Turkey are not isolated. In recent years, a number of countries have used broad anti-terror laws to restrict the freedom of the press.
Index on Censorship calls on Turkey to release two Vice journalists and a local colleague who have been formally charged with “working on behalf of a terrorist organisation”.
Index’s project Mapping Media Freedom has recorded an alarming increase in media freedom violations in Croatia.
Vasile Luca, a veteran journalist working at Radio Cluj, a Romanian public radio station based in Cluj-Napoca, was fired in May 2015 as a result of a disciplinary committee hearing.
No job comes without sacrifices, but how many downgrading comments, criticism or even threats can one person take before it becomes too much?
Index on Censorship youth advisory board member Lejla Becar discusses the banning of music in Bosnia
A man who hid from the Charlie Hebdo attackers has filed a lawsuit against French media for their reporting.