A piece by award-winning filmmaker Marco Salustro, published in Index on Censorship's latest issue, describes the journalistic challenges of covering the plight of the thousands of migrants who have fled sub-Saharan Africa and are now being held in Libya
Introducing Voices in Danger
An extract from an interview with Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, published in Index on Censorship magazine in 2005, the year before she was murdered for her work. On the 10th anniversary of death, it has been included within a special report on her legacy in Index on Censorship's latest issue
More than 130 media organisations have been shut down since the coup attempt on 15 July
For the media in this country to give Erdoğan a free pass would be a gross failing, not least in the eyes of independent Turkish journalists whose work has been hampered by the serious erosion of press freedom in their homeland
Journalist Abraham T. Zere has been identified as a 'security threat', and watched his colleagues go to prison. Now exiled in the USA, he reveals the dangers facing writers in the "world's most censored country"
Iranian cartoonist, Atena Farghadani, has already posted a new cartoon on Facebook. Matilda Battersby reports on her case, why her art was so controversial, and her next moves
The deposed Egyptian President was previously sentenced to death in another case
Ahmed Abdel Qader has been outspoken in opposition to militant group
His successive election victories led to Turkey being held up as a beacon for Islamic democracy. Now Erdogan has become impregnable
Dutch Metro columnist has been detained for allegedly insulting Turkish President Erdogan
Index on Censorship's deputy editor on the perils of wearing a slogan T-shirt
'The last ten years were the most dangerous'
The young Malian went from migrant worker to right-wing target after helping hide Jewish hostages at a kosher supermarket before briefing police before their successful assault
Jihadists killed Ms Mohammed in September as punishment for her outspoken posts, but continued to operate her accounts until very recently
After Syria, the most journalists were killed in France this year
Days after the latest postponement of Shawkan's trial, the letter, signed by over 40 journalists and activists from around the world, demands the release of all other media professionals thrown in prison on press-related charges
The latest in our series of testimonies from Rory Peck Awards finalists comes from Syrian freelance filmmaker Salam Rizk. Here Rizk describes travelling to the city of Jisr al-Shughour where he filmed an important rebel victory in April
Zein al-Rifai is a 28-year-old freelance photographer and video-journalist from Aleppo. He is a Rory Peck News finalist for his coverage of daily life in the rebel-held area of the city – the former economic capital of Syria – for AFPTV.
The editor of Turkey’s leading English language newspaper Today’s Zaman was last week arrested for insulting the president over Twitter. The day after his release he spoke exclusively to Voices in Danger about the impending trial, the challenges of running an independent newspaper in Turkey and the intimidation faced by journalists who dare to speak out against the Erdoğan regime.
Bülent Keneş, editor of Today’s Zaman, was charged with insulting the president over Twitter
Cosme Diez Maestrado is the third journalist to be killed in the country in less than a month
