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Bahrain: Opposition figure faces charges for free speech
Bahrain's decision to file charges against Ebrahim Sharif underscores the country's tactical use of judicial harassment to suppress freedom of speech. Ebrahim Sharif, the former secretary-general of the secular opposition group National Democratic...
Lindsey Hilsum: The danger of reporting behind the lines
In the summer 2016 issue of Index on Censorship magazine award-winning journalist Lindsey Hilsum asks if reporters should still be heading to warzones.
Bahrain: Nabeel Rajab trial postponed until 16 April
The trial of jailed Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab on charges of spreading “rumours and false news” was deferred for a second time on 7 March until 16 April.
Zaina Erhaim: “No one is left in Aleppo”
The Index-award winning journalist Zaina Erhaim was due to travel to the USA this month along with three other Syrian women to screen their documentary series, Syria’s Rebellious Women
Inside Syria’s war: The extreme dangers faced by local reporters
A Syrian citizen journalist on the realities of reporting in a country where a pseudonym and bulletproof vest offer little protection from constant danger
Bahrain: Rights activist facing two trials in March
Bahrain’s government continues its judicial harassment of Nabeel Rajab
Bahrain’s Day of Rage, six years on
A reading list looking at Bahrain’s uprising six years on.
Murad Subay: Yemen’s war makes a month feel like a year
The Index award winner talks about the war in Yemen, president Trump’s travel ban his involvement in a prize for aspiring artists from around the world
Groups urge Boris Johnson to call for release of Nabeel Rajab
International organisations call on the British foreign minister to pressure Bahrain to end judicial harassment of human rights advocate Nabeel Rajab