Friday, 26 November 2021

Internet shutdowns: How protesters are avoiding Sudan's censorship tool of choice

Robert Harding / Alamy Stock Photo

When Sudan's prime minister was deposed - albeit temporarily - in a coup at the end of October, the military's response was to block web access as it has done to quell protests over the years. The net blackout hit the economy, reporting from the country and individuals in their everyday lives. Some protesters got around the shutdown by getting creative, writes Zeinab Mohammed Salih.

Lawsuits against the author and publisher of Putin's People are SLAPPs

Index on Censorship and eighteen other human rights and press freedom organisations have condemned the legal actions raised by Roman Abramovich and the Russian state energy company Rosneft against journalist Catherine Belton (left) and HarperCollins, publisher of her book Putin's People: How the KGB took back Russia and then took on the West, which was published in April 2020.

The lawsuits relate to extracts in the book that suggest that Abramovich's purchase of Chelsea Football Club in 2003 was directed by Russian president Vladimir Putin and that Rosneft had participated in the expropriation of the Yukos Oil Company. Read our statement on the case.

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