PAST EVENT: Geek calendar launch

19 Oct 2010 | Events

Jonathan Ross, Brian Cox, Chris Addison, Aleks Krotoski and Simon Singh celebrate ‘the age of the geek’ in a unique charity project.

Jonathan Ross in costume in his shrine of comics, toys and gadgets; Professor Brian Cox and Gia Milinovich puzzling over how to fix their toaster; TV comic Chris Addison backstage, dreaming of space travel; tech journalist Aleks Krotoski smouldering in a sea of gadgets; writer Simon Singh reading his baby son a bedtime story of particle physics…

These are among the scenes featured in the GEEK CALENDAR, where British geeks are celebrating nerdishness in all its glory. And they are doing it for a very good cause: Index on Censorship, English PEN and Sense About Science’s Libel Reform Campaign.

The launch of the GEEK CALENDAR is this Thursday 21 October at 7pm at the Free Word Centre.
Please email: [email protected] for tickets.

Azerbaijan: Authorities refuse to investigate attack on journalists

27 Aug 2010 | Azerbaijan News, Index Index, minipost, News and features

Security guards who attacked two journalists may go unpunished after authorities refused to investigate the case. Elmin Badalov and Anar Gerayly were beaten by a wealthy businessman’s private security guards on 28 July.

The two newspaper reporters had been taking photos of luxury homes in the Baku region of Shuvlan, and were then held by the guards for three hours. Police acknowledge that Badalov and Gerayly sustained considerable bruising, but they claim that a medical examination shows this could have been caused by “a serious fall”. Authorities assured journalists last year that the ban on taking photos without consent would not be used against the media.