Index on Censorship has received a report that Al-Ahram Weekly's correspondent in the West Bank, Khalid Amayreh, was arrested by the Palestinian...
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No facts please, we're British
This is a guest post by Chris Ames So it turns out that another of the government’s claims about Iraq was baseless. As I revealed last week, it...
China's Charter 08 – too early to tell?
Rebecca MacKinnon knows more than practically anyone other westerner about free expression in China. Over at her blog, rconversation, she has...
Thailand: academic calls for campaign to abolish lèse majesté
Political scientist Ji Ungpakorn, a professor at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University and a prominent activist, has called for a campaign to abolish...
Alexander Lebedev and the art of owning newspapers
The UK press is buzzing with the news of Russian Alexander Lebedev's takeover of London's Evening Standard. So what can Standard staff expect?...
BBC Persian TV launches
The BBC’s Persian TV service goes on air today. At the press launch last week, Nigel Chapman of the World Service said the hope was that the BBC’s...
Lasantha Wickrematunga
'No other profession calls on its practitioners to lay down their lives for their art save the armed forces --- and, in Sri Lanka, journalism.' Read...
Syrian lingerie under wraps
Anyone planning to go to the opening at the London School of Economics this week of 'Secret Life', an exhibition drawn from Malu Halasa and Rana...
Chennai censor board urges cut in smoking scenes
Babu Ramaswamy, an official at the censor board in the South Indian city of Chennai, has announced that film censors shall be paying keen attention...
'Care should not correspond to caution'
Is the BBC's quest for balance actually distorting its coverage of Israel's military campaign in Gaza? Index on Censorship Chief Executive John...