The most senior prosecutor in England has issued guidelines on when criminal charges should be brought against people posting offensive or abusive comments on social media networks
Social media and free speech
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Emily Butselaar
The Libel Reform Campaign
In November 2009, after months of research and reporting on England’s anti-free speech libel laws, Index, in association with our partners, launched the Libel Reform Campaign. Months later, as Britain prepared for a general election, over 50,000...
Freedom for Belarus
Belarus is Europe’s last dictatorship. Its people have suffered under president Alexander Lukashenko since 1994. Opposition media and activists are silenced by the former Soviet republic’s KGB On 19 December 2010, thousands gathered to protest...
“Porn filters” fail parents and children
Index welcomes the government's rejection of a proposal for mandatory blocking of "internet filth" On Friday (14 December), UK government announced that it will not force internet providers to block online pornography. Despite high-profile...
Digital Frontiers
International in outlook, outspoken in comment, award-winning magazine Index on Censorship is the only publication dedicated to freedom of expression
Belarusians can’t protest to support jailed Nobel prize nominee, but you can
One year after heroic human rights activist Ales Bialiatski was arrested and jailed on politically-motivated charges, Index asks you to take action in solidarity
PAST EVENT: 19 July: What will Lord Justice Leveson conclude about the future of the British press?
19 July: Index at the Frontline Club
International Correspondents
We are looking to recruit correspondents with excellent local contacts, expertise and language skills in Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, East Africa, India, Thailand (covering East Asia) To widen our reach and impact both at home and abroad, in 2010...
Responding to the Queen’s speech #libelreform announcement
The government will introduce a law "to protect freedom of speech and reform the law of defamation” The libel reform campaign, nearly 100 organisations and our 60,000 supporters including leading names from science, the arts and public life have...
We did it! Queen announces a defamation bill
Index is delighted to announce that thanks to our Libel Reform Campaign, the Queen has announced a defamation bill in the next parliament
UPDATE: Read the Defamation Bill 2012-13
Index asks for more transparency about government’s core participant status in Leveson Inquiry
Index is one of four public benefit organisations which have today made an urgent application to the Leveson Inquiry regarding Government ministers’ new status as ‘core participants’ in the Inquiry
Telco caught colluding with dictators
Nordic Telecom giant TeliaSonera forced to act after evidence that its data has been abused to target, harass and jail activists in Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Belarus