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Google Transparency Report reveals record high government requests
Governments and courts in 31 countries requested data from 33,634 Google users or accounts in the second half of 2012 according to the company’s latest Transparency Report. While the number of data requests rose by two per cent --- from 20,938 to...
Index Index – International free speech roundup 23/01/13
Index Index – International free speech roundup 23/01/13
The price of dissent in Kazakhstan
In recent weeks, Kazakh authorities closed down almost all independent media, and gave prosecutors new, wider legal powers against free speech. Protests against these latest attacks must go hand-in-hand with the defence of prisoners of conscience...
Index Index – International free speech roundup 22/01/13
Index Index – International free speech roundup
Index Index – International free speech roundup 21/01/13
Two journalists have been killed in Syria while reporting on the front line. French journalist Yves Debay was shot twice while covering the conflict between the Syrian regime's army and rebel forces on 17 January, reportedly killed by a regime...
Mexican teacher fired for showing gay rights film
A 28-year-old middle school teacher at a private school in Mexico City has been fired after showing her students the 2008 film Milk, which tells the story of gay rights activist Harvey Milk, who was murdered in San Francisco in the 1970s. Mexico's...
editor online
EDITOR – Online and News: Job Description - Index on Censorship Overview: The Editor (online and news) (EON) leads and manages Index’s editorial coverage online and the Index website as a whole (including publishing advocacy, events and...
Index Index – International free speech roundup 18/01/13
Daisy Williams: Index Index – International free speech roundup
Kazakhstan crackdown set to continue
Kazakh prosecutors last month achieved international notoriety, as they sought to close eight newspapers and 23 web sites, and sued Google, Facebook, Twitter, and LiveJournal. Journalists in the country fear that this latest crackdown will destroy...