A Spanish company has been targeting the social media accounts of critics of the Ecuadorean government.
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Index on Censorship calls on the international community to put pressure on Azerbaijan to respect freedom of expression.
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Pakistan’s move to ban access to the gay social networking website Queerpk reflects the conservative society’s inability to accept a “larger world view”, activists say. Keeping with Pakistan’s internet censorship policies, some say the ban is aimed at curbing alternate and progressive discourse.
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In this excerpt from a speech she delivered on March 14, Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer warns that South Africa’s Protection of State Information Bill will return the country to an equivalent of apartheid-era limits on free speech.
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In this essay, journalist and author Salil Tripathi, explains how outdated Colonial-era legislation is being used to curtail free expression, exemplified by the legal proceeding filed against four authors who read aloud from Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses.
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Maikel Nabil Sanad is entering his 42nd day of hunger strike in protest against a three-year sentence imposed by a military court for criticizing the army.
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Journalist Natalia Radzina explains why she fled Belarus seeking political asylum. Sampsonia Way presents the translation of her text, originally published by Index on Censorship.
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