Censorship
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Indian film board blocks release of Oscar-nominated Gaza drama The Voice of Hind Rajab
Distributor says authorities warned screening Tunisian film-maker Kaouther Ben Hania’s docudrama could harm In…
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The splinternet: how online shutdowns are getting cheaper and easier to impose
Iran has shown how plausible blackouts now are, with far-reaching consequences for the internet as we know itD…
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Chinese technology underpins Iran’s internet control, report finds
The technologies include facial recognition tools used on Uyghurs in western China, say expertsIran’s architec…
- Bangladesh, Censorship, Global development, Media, Muhammad Yunus, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Press freedom, Protest, Sheikh Hasina, South and Central Asia, World news
How hope is fading: the mobs bringing violence back to the streets of Bangladesh
As crowds attack newspaper offices and violence has killed 184 people, the optimism around Sheikh Hasina’s ove…
- Afghanistan, Business, Censorship, Freedom of speech, Internet, Mobile phones, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Technology, Telecommunications industry, Telecoms, World news
‘It felt like we had gone back centuries’: Afghans express relief after internet restored
For 48 hours Afghanistan had been cut off from mobile and internet services in a Taliban-imposed shutdownJust …
- Alison Brie, Asia Pacific, Australia news, Censorship, China, Culture, Film, LGBTQ+ rights, Relationships, World news
Horror film digitally altered in China to make gay couple straight
Viewers outraged after same-sex wedding scene changed in Together, starring Dave Franco and Alison BrieAn Aust…
- Censorship, Donald Trump, Freedom of speech, Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Stewart, Maria Ressa, Media, Philippines, Trump administration, US news, US politics, World news
Americans are ‘deer in the headlights’ in face of Trump assault on free speech, Maria Ressa tells Jon Stewart
Nobel prize winner says US institutions have collapsed much quicker than expected under the Trump administrati…
- Arundhati Roy, Books, Censorship, Culture, Freedom of speech, India, Kashmir, Narendra Modi, South and Central Asia, World news
Arundhati Roy works among dozens of books banned in Indian-administered Kashmir
Censorship order accuses books of promoting ‘false narrative and secessionism’ in disputed territoryThe govern…
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Indian film board criticised for cutting ‘overly sensual’ Superman kisses
Viewers complain that board allows violence and misogyny in Indian films but not a smooch in a Hollywood relea…
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‘Alarming’ rise in regional internet censorship in China, study finds
Tens of millions of internet users in China’s Henan denied access to five times more websites than usualChina’…
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India blocks X accounts of Chinese state media over coverage of Kashmir crisis
Move comes after Indian officials accused the outlets of spreading Pakistani propaganda and misinformationThe …
- Censorship, Freedom of speech, Global development, India, Journalist safety, Media, Narendra Modi, Newspapers & magazines, South and Central Asia, World news, World Press Freedom Day 2025
‘They threatened to bulldoze my house’: fear and violence stalk journalists in Modi’s India
Attacks and self censorship, draconian anti-terror laws and tycoons’ control over the media, are all seen as e…
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Internationally acclaimed film Santosh blocked in India over portrayal of police brutality
Award-winning film set in fictional town has already made its debut at Cannes but censors have refused to appr…
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X sues Modi’s government over content removal in new India censorship fight
Elon Musk’s company is arguing against the government’s expanded powers to allow easier removal of online cont…
- Afghanistan, Asia Pacific, Censorship, China, Google, Human rights, Iran, Russia, Taliban, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, World news, YouTube
Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests
An investigation has exposed the tech firm’s cooperation with autocratic regimes to remove unfavourable conten…