Kioomars Marzban, a 27-year-old satirical writer from Iran, was sentenced to 23 years and 3 months in prison. He was found guilty on five separate charges, given a two-year travel ban, and a two-year ban on publishing or using social media.
Laugh and the World Laughs with Me is an intimate short story of a young woman who has a schizophrenic brother, set against the backdrop of the Tahrir Square demonstrations, from Egyptian writer Eman Abdelrahim.
On 26 July 2019, Turkey’s highest court brought new hope to Turkish academics when it ruled that ten educators who had signed the petition “We will not be a Party to This Crime!” (Bu Suça Ortak Olmayacağız) had been tried unfairly and in violation of their rights.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/b21faoXVpM4"][vc_column_text]“Students in the United States must be free to express their views, without feeling pressured to censor their speech...We can and will push back hard against the...
Pakistan’s journalists have faced harassment and interference, pressure on media owners is common, and the government has taken to interrupting the distribution of news it dislikes.
Index on Censorship, one of the world’s leading freedom of expression groups, wants to reverse the trend of free speech being pitted against advocacy for social change.
His absolute independence is what saved him in all the years that he stayed in Raqqa, even during the years that Isis was in charge
Index calls on the UK to stand up to the Bahrain government on human rights after police storm the London embassy to protect protester
We report on the border region’s long-term crackdown on communications well before the latest news blackout. Rituparna Chatterjee, talked to academics and journalists about what it has been like to live there
Since winning the 2019 Index Award for Campaigning, CRNI has been monitoring the situation with Badiucao, a Chinese dissident cartoonist living in exile in Australia