National security arguments cannot become a tool to control free expression in democratic societies
The silencing of media in times of war
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CATEGORY: Middle East and North Africa
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The world is seeing a completely different war from the domestic audience
Israeli military censor bans highest number of articles in over a decade
The sharp rise in media censorship in 2023 comes as the Israeli government further undermines press freedoms, especially amid the Gaza war
Bahrain: Joint letter on human rights situation to the United Nations Human Rights Council
Index joins more than 30 other organisations to raise concerns over the situation in the country 13 years after popular uprisings were quashed
Contents – The long reach: How authoritarian countries are silencing critics abroad
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Sting, Margaret Atwood, Elif Shafak and Coldplay join more than 100 artists, musicians, writers and leading cultural figures to call for the immediate and unconditional release of Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi
Musician faces death sentence after three years of judicial harassment, including arrest, imprisonment and torture
Urgent appeal filed with United Nations for Iranian rapper sentenced to death for his music
Toomaj Salehi, who was beaten and tortured in jail, has just 20 days to appeal charges of “corruption on Earth”
Nobody is safe from Iran’s protest crackdown
Protests over Toomaj Salehi’s sentence have rightfully begun, but his is not an isolated case
We the screamers
The atrocity deniers are everywhere and we need to scream over them with the truth
Statement: Iranian dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi sentenced to death
Index on Censorship has issued a joint statement with ARC and PEN America condemning a decision by an Iranian revolutionary court