Index condemns last night’s arrest of Index’s 2012 Award winner and head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Nabeel Rajab and the ongoing harassment of human rights activists in Bahrain
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Index condemns the arrest of prominent rights activist Nabeel Rajab
Index on Censorship condemns last night’s arrest of Index’s 2012 Award winner and head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Nabeel Rajab...
New wave of violence threatens Egyptian presidential elections
Violent clashes between protesters staging a sit-in outside the Defence Ministry Headquarters in Cairo’s Abbasseya district and unknown assailants...
Free expression in Tunisia 18 months on
Members of the IFEX-TMG gathered in Tunis for World Press Freedom Day to mark the launch of four new initiatives to support Tunisian rights to...
Why I won’t be going to Bahrain next week
Government changes visa rules to prevent seven rights groups visiting Bahrain next week
TV boss ordered to pay fine over Persepolis broadcast
The Court of First Instance of Tunis today ordered Nabil Karoui, boss of Nessma TV, to pay a fine of 2,400 Tunisian Dinars (961 GBP) over the...
Why I won’t be going to Bahrain next week
The Bahraini government has a funny definition of transparency. Despite flowery invitations made during my last visit to the troubled country, an...
Verdict due in Persepolis trial – key test of free expression in Tunisia
A Tunis court is expected to issue a verdict in the prosecution of a television station broadcaster which aired the award-winning French-Iranian...
Hunger striker Abdulhadi Alkhawaja to be retried in civilian court
Bahrain's Court of Cassation yesterday ordered a retrial in a civilian court for activist and hunger striker Abdulhadi Alkhawaja and twenty other...
Iran: Elderly revolutionary icon sentenced to eight years in jail
An 80-year old head of a banned opposition party in Iran has been ordered to serve eight years in prison. Ebrahim Yazdi, activist and former foreign...