Rohan Jayasekera: The use of so-called “insult laws” to censor legitimate criticism of a country’s leader is a tool of authoritarian regimes everywhere, and now, it seems Iraq too.
Rohan Jayasekera: an assault on Slim Boukdhir has come hot on the heels of Tunisia’s dubious presidential election result
Belarus: International media and press freedom organisations, including Index on Censorship have issued a report calling for far reaching reforms of the media in Belarus.
Rohan Jayasekera at an inspiring evening for free expression
Rohan Jayasekera encounters the imperious and elegant first deputy head of the Belarus presidential administration, Natalia Petkevich, Minsk’s Iron Lady of censorship.
Rohan Jayasekera on boundaries and Beuys in Bexhill-on-Sea
Index on Censorship calls on UN to defend rights of Iranian opposition group in Iraq
Rohan Jayasekera says rights advocates can learn from the single-minded political and military approach
Rohan Jayasekera on a crisis for the Caribbean press
Interesting debate at London’s Frontline Club on Tuesday on Sri Lanka. It was supposed to poll involved media views on the expected defeat of the LTTE Tamil Tiger separatists and – theoretically – the end of the country’s debilitating and corrupting civil war. Instead it got dug into the rising argument that the savage end [...]
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