Two years ago today, Toomaj Salehi was arrested because his music was unjustly seen as a threat.
Rap is not a crime, yet my cousin remains behind bars in Iran
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CATEGORY: Middle East and North Africa
Journalists have a “right to life”
The rich and powerful are increasingly acting with impunity to silence, sometimes permanently, those who seek to shine a light on their activities
Contents – Inconvenient truths: How scientists are being silenced around the world
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All the news that’s fake to print
Index on Censorship’s new editor rounds up the stories that have made headlines this week including disinformation around the Florida hurricane
Al Jazeera’s closure sets a dangerous precedent for journalism, says union
The shutdown of the West Bank news centre has been labelled a security step by Israeli officials, but a worrying form of press suppression by media workers, unions and academics.
One year on from 7 October: free speech violations in Israel and Palestine
Amongst the horrendous loss of life and destruction, journalists and peace activists have been persecuted. We summarise Index’s coverage of censorship throughout the conflict over the past 12 months
Telling fact from fiction
Journalistic “black holes”, such as in Gaza and Sudan, curtail people’s ability to understand geopolitics and conflict
Israel’s closure of Al Jazeera’s West Bank office is a blow to press freedom
This is just another example of Israel’s suppression of Palestinian journalists, which stops them from documenting the brutal war in Gaza
British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah denied freedom once again
The political prisoner remains behind bars after serving a five-year jail term, but his family won’t stop campaigning for his release
Iranian filmmakers pull it out of the bag
An exploration of some of the innovative strategies employed by Iran’s directors to circumvent censorship