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Italy: a call in support of Roberto Saviano
The Italian writer is facing a lawsuit for aggravated defamation initiated by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
“The Online Safety Bill will fundamentally undermine rights to freedom of expression”
Index and other organisations ask UN Special Rapporteurs to intervene on proposed UK legislation
Junket journalism is taking off in China
China’s attempts to woo foreign journalists and bloggers in bid to control conversation
Questions that Sunak should have asked Mohammad bin Salman at G20…(but probably didn’t)
As we continue to mark the ongoing detention of University of Leeds PhD student Salma al-Shehab, we look at what could have been discussed at this morning’s meeting
Roberto Saviano: Italian democracy on trial
The Gomorrah author heads to court tomorrow in a case that illuminates the precarious state of media freedom in Italy
How ‘industrial football’ was used to silence protests
Football fans turned out in large numbers during the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul. They’ve paid the price since
Xi’s real China dream
China’s leader is football mad and he has put the sport at the forefront of many initiatives. When it comes to the nation’s freedoms that’s been a mixed blessing
Letter to Suella Braverman on policing of Just Stop Oil protests
Index joins other organistions in writing to the Home Secretary to say the arrest of journalists threatens press freedom in the UK
Detained, cuffed and thrown in a cell for seven hours: reporting protest in the UK in 2022
A London reporter describes the day he ended up in jail simply for doing his job