Governments, organisations and media across the world have been put on alert as whistleblowing site Wikileaks looks set to release millions of diplomantic communications. Emily Butselaar reports
Writer Nevin Berktaş, author of the book "Difficult places that challenge the faith: Prison Cells" (published by Yediveren Yayınları in 2010), is...
In his speech at the European Writers’ Parliament in Istanbul, Hari Kunzru raised the issue of Turkey’s free speech violations
How do you survive as a journalist in a country ranked worse than Iran on press freedom and worse than Zimbabwe on human rights? In the lead up to next month’s Belarusian presidential elections, exiled reporter Olga Birukova talks to Index on Censorship about her experiences as a young journalist
An arrest warrant has been issued for the son of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Mehdi Hashemi, whose father is an influential cleric and former president...
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) now regularly refers to Morgan Tsvangirai as “the leader of the MDC party” rather than “the Prime...
Sixty thousand websites deemed to host pornographic content have been shut down by the government since December 2009. The National Office Against...
Zhao Lianhai, the father of one of about 300,000 children poisoned by tainted milk in 2008, has dropped his plans to appeal according to his...
Three men were charged yesterday with the attempted murder of a journalist, news agency El Universal reported. Two of the men are reported to be...
Khusein Shadiyev, editor of Serdalo newspaper (Ingushetia – North Caucasus) has been hospitalised with a gunshot wound on Monday, ITAR-TASS...