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Index Index – international free speech roundup 14/01/13
On 10 January, three Pakistani media professionals were killed in a suicide bomb blast in Quetta. Imran Shaikh, Saif ur Rehman and Mohammad Iqbal were killed by the attacks against the Hazara Shia...
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Index Index – International free speech roundup 22/01/13
The European Commission released its report of final recommendations on media freedom on 21 January. The report from the High Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism outlined its desire to impose EU...
View ArticleGoogle 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...
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Index Index – International free speech round up 28/01/13
On 24 January, thousands of priceless manuscripts were destroyed in a fire started by Islamist militants leaving Mali. The South African — funded library had been torched by the rebel fighters after...
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Index Index – International free speech round up 05/02/13
An unknown gunman in Denmark has shot at a prominent writer and historian who is a critic of Islam. Reports said that Lars Hedegaard was not injured. The perpetrator arrived at Hedegaard’s Copenhagen...
View ArticlePoverty and freedom of expression: How the poor are being silenced
Poverty can restrict your access to basic human rights. This is neither a controversial nor revolutionary statement — it is clear that access to food and shelter is diminished by poverty. But poverty...
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Burma: Traditional satirical performance returns, but so does censorship
Thangyat is a traditional form of entertainment performed for Burma’s New Year Thingyan Water Festival (taking place this week), made up of chanted satirical sketches with dance and percussion. The...
View ArticleThe Arrest of Ai Weiwei
WATCH A LIVE PERFORMANCE OF THE ARREST OF AI WEIWEI FROM 7.30pm GMT A few days after China’s most famous dissident artist Ai Weiwei was released from jail in June 2011, writer Barnaby Martin called his...
View ArticleInside Story: Index on ethnic cleansing in Burma
Index on Censorship’s Mike Harris joins Ghida Fakhry and guests on Al Jazeera’s Inside Story, to discuss whether a giving a peace prize to Burma’s president Thein Sein rewards the killings of Rohingya...
View ArticleSurvey explores Arab media usage
Preliminary research from a survey of nearly 10,000 Arab respondents has found that while most support the right to free expression online, they are apt to believe that the internet should be...
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