Despite atrocities against activists increasing globally, we have highlighted the execution by the Iranian government of journalist Ruhollah Zam
Why Index has held its first ever social media blackout
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CATEGORY: Middle East and North Africa
Ruhollah Zam: 27 July 1978 – 12 December 2020
The founder of the Amadnews channel, a critic of the Iranian government, has been executed for ‘spreading corruption on Earth’
Let them know they are not forgotten
Join us in sending messages of support to six human rights activists and journalists around the world who are #JailedNotForgotten
“His only crime is to believe that Egyptians deserve the most basic of human rights”
Karim Ennarah, EIPR’s criminal justice unit director, is facing fabricated charges of joining a terrorist group and spreading fake news
Why the arrest of Egypt’s Gasser Abed El Razek is so troubling
The arrest of the executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and two staff is a shameful attack on human rights
#FreeNazanin: Charity worker faces new charges on Monday
MP Tulip Siddiq expresses her support by reciting a poem written for Index by Zaghari-Ratcliffe from her cell
One year after murder of Khashoggi, NGOs renew call for justice
One year after the death of Jamal Khashoggi, Index and other organisations call for the opening of a thorough, independent and effective criminal investigation into the murder of the journalist
Bahrain must suspend Nabeel Rajab’s sentence
Nine international organisations have written a letter calling for Bahrain to suspend Nabeel Rajab’s current sentence.
Iran: Satirical writer Kioomars Marzban is sentenced to 23 years in jail
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
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.