Last summer, Northern Irish journalist Barry McCaffrey had his home raided by armed police. As families readied their children for school, McCaffrey was escorted from his house on a quiet Belfast street by officers dressed in boiler suits. His...
Politicians around the world are trying to stamp out fake news online but at what cost to freedom of expression?
Index condemns the killing in the strongest possible terms and calls on the UK authorities to bring those responsible to justice and on European governments to do more to ensure the safety of journalists.
Journalist Emilio Gutiérrez fled Mexico after soldiers sent him a warning. Now the USA wants to send him back.
The controversy followed reporting of alleged hazing at an all-male and secretive sporting club, the Knights of the Campanile
The initiation ceremony, or “hazing”, was seemingly meted out to those invited to become members of the Knights of the Campanile, an invitation-only sporting society, based on similar bodies at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
Journalists see the seizure of smartphones by judicial and police as a violation of Spain’s Constitution.
Press freedom is more fragile now than at any time since the end of the Cold War. That is the conclusion of a report by the 12 partner organisations of the Council of Europe platform to promote the protection of journalism and safety of journalists.
Historian Tayfun Balcik has been building a database showing how often the word terrorism is used in combination with Muslim, and how Muslim women are represented in four Dutch newspapers.
Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Mukhtarli fled the country in fear in 2014 but in May 2017 he vanished while in Tbilisi, Georgia, and reappeared the following day back in his home country