Apple has removed an iPhone application based on the infamous ChatRoulette website from their store after concerns over nudity. iChatr allowed users to video chat anonymously with other randomly-selected people. ChatRoulette, a website with similar...
The US senate last night passed legislation to protect US journalists, writers and publishers from “libel tourists” – litigants who sue Americans in foreign jurisdictions which place a lower emphasis on free speech
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British Author Alan Shadrake has been arrested in Singapore for writing a book critical of the city state’s use of the death sentence. Ben Bland reports
Earlier today British author Alan Shadrake was arrested in Singapore for alleged criminal defamation and contempt of court .The state run Media Development Authority filed a complaint against Shadrake's book, which examines the death penalty in...
A prominent Greek journalist has been killed in front of his home by a gang of three masked gunmen. Sokratis Giolias, who ran radio station Thema FM and the popular news blog Troktiko, covering a number of political scandals in the process, was...
Former Index on Censorship editor Sally Laird died recently after a long battle with cancer. Here, Robert Chandler appreciates an extraordinary translator and journalist
Index on Censorship is sad to announce the death of Sally Laird on 15 July 2010. Born in 1956, Laird was USSR editor for Index on Censorship between June 1986 and November 1988 and went on to become editor in chief until August 1989. During her...
A recording of a performance of "Numbers", directed by Vladimir Shcherban, performed in secret by the Belarus Free Theatre, an outlaw theatre group in Europe's last dictatorship. Now watch Video: Natalia Koliada on surviving in Europe’s last...
Protesters at London’s Democracy Village have lost their appeal against eviction from Parliament Square. Index witnessed their response to their last eviction deadline and watched events unfold Parliament Square came to a standstill on 2 July,...
Protesters at London's Democracy Village have lost their appeal against eviction from Parliament Square. Read Index's report from the appeal hearing here