Turkey: Government detains journalists
On Sunday, December 14, at least 27 people were detained by Turkish police, including journalists, producers and directors of TV shows and police officers. Arrest warrants were issued for at least 31....
View ArticleBulgaria: Murky ownership, censorship and corruption in the media
Murky ownership, a whole array of censorship practices as well as corruption are plaguing Bulgarian media, according to a survey from the Bulgarian Reporter Foundation. The report, Influence on the...
View ArticleJohn Crace on the Magna Carta: 1215 and all that
2015 marks the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. Index on Censorship magazine’s winter issue has a special report that examines all ways in which the document affected modern freedoms. Here John...
View ArticleWhy we should be worried about relinquishing our privacy to a secret state
(Photo: David von Blohn/Demotix) Ben Wizner is a director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Speech, Privacy & Technology Project — which is dedicated to protecting and expanding...
View ArticleRashid Razaq: As a Muslim, I know there is no God-given right not to be offended
Rashid Razaq is a reporter for London Evening Standard and a playwright. What is the solution to the Muslim Problem? Britain has tried multiculturalism; the French, a stricter enforcement of...
View ArticleSri Lanka’s media needs reform — can new President Sirisena deliver?
Any nation’s media would be hard pressed keeping track of a landslide of political change, environmental crises, imminent constitutional reform and a general election, all while keeping safe from a...
View ArticleA win for Assange, but not for free speech
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Julian Assange/Cancillería del Ecuador/WikiCommons This week’s decision not to extradite WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, to the USA to stand trial for charges of...
View ArticleThe Biden presidency: what can we expect for free speech?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Biden and Obama/The White House/WikiCommons On top of being the only US president impeached twice, Donald Trump leaves a legacy of attacks on the very foundations of...
View ArticleContents – Playing with fire: how theatre is resisting the oppressor
The Winter issue of Index magazine highlights the battles fought by theatre of resistance across the world and how they’ve been enduring different forms of censorship. Writer Jonathan Maitland dives...
View Article“You cannot tell the story of the Holocaust without challenging imagery”
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, marking 77 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. Every year this is a day for reflection. To remember not just those that were murdered at the hands of the Nazis but...
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