Conditions for journalists are worsening in the run up to elections, reports Natasha Schmidt in Baku
Azerbaijan: a bleak landscape
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Hague: Human rights "essential" to foreign policy
The Foreign Secretary announced this morning the launch of a new independent advisory group on human rights. Promising to turn rhetoric into...
UK: Film-makers arrested on Donald Trump’s Scottish estate
Two documentary-makers were arrested and detained after filming at Donald Trump's golf resort near Aberdeen. Anthony Baxter and Richard Phinney were...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe bans music group over “chicken” song
Zimbabwe's government has banned South African group Freshlyground over a music video that portrays President Mugabe as a chicken afraid to...
Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood: Set yourself free
Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood explains why the band released their last album direct to their fans
Hong Kong: the other face of China
Freedom of expression is alive and kicking in the Special Administrative Region. Priyanka Boghani reports
Belarus offers OSCE access to Byabenin investigation
The Belarusian authorities have said that the Organisation for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) will be granted access to the investigation into the...
Bring music, bring life
In the new issue of Index on Censorship magazine, Daniel Barenboim tells Clemency Burton-Hill why music provides a model for living and governments continue to fear the power of its influence
US: Craigslist “adult” adverts censored
Classified ad site Craigslist has closed its "Adult Services" section, after a campaign by 17 states to have it removed. Attorneys general from...
Suspicions over ‘suicide’ of Belarus activist Aleh Byabenin
Index on Censorship is deeply concerned by the suspected suicide of one of Belarus’s leading human rights activists, Aleh Byabenin. Byabenin was found dead in his country house on the outskirts of Minsk yesterday (Friday 3 September) at 5.30pm local time by a family friend. No suicide note was found