Index on Censorship

The openness promised by President Suharto has closed the doors on Jakarta's popular theatre

Suharto's 'new ideas and dialogue' remain more honoured in the breach than the observance

Indonesia's glasnost is short-lived as religious sensibilities are allowed free rein to harry the press

The past is up for grabs and dissident historians prove as threatening as political activists or pamphleteers

The world's biggest advertising agency controls the news — as well as the commercial breaks

Long caught in the crossfire between the government and its readers, the press in Kathmandu is attempting to adjust to new freedoms. But it is too early to seek change out of the 12 May elections

The Party press in Mongolia is starting to break old taboos and report the real world

Reality becomes the stuff of nightmare and ghosts haunt the living daylight in Iran's Islamic republic

Electronic communications fall victim to the same restrictions as the written word in an earlier age

The law of the gun rules in Cyberspace as it did in the days of America's 'Wild West'

The US Freedom of Information Act is failing to keep pace with the demands of new technology

When the Mohawks laid claim to ancestral lands, the media found themselves caught in the crossfire of attempts to keep the story out of the headlines