Council of Europe media alert filed condemning legal action against the author of Moneyland
Index on Censorship condemns lawsuit against journalist and author Oliver Bullough
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Call for the immediate and unconditional release of Egyptian human rights defender Abdelrahman ‘Moka’ Tarek
Index and nine other organisations call for Moka’s release as he receives the 2021 Freedom of Expression Awards
Report: The rise of Confucius Institutes
Read our publication on Chinese influence on campus as part of our #BannedByBeijing campaign
Banned Books Week 2021: Poetry in Protest
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="117512" img_size="full"][vc_column_text] Marking Banned Books Week 2021, Index on Censorship and the British Library present a conversation with poets at the frontlines of protest movements...
Trustees’ Award 2021
Arif Ahmed is a free speech activist and a fellow of Gonville & Caius College at the University of Cambridge and is the winner of the 2021 Freedom of Expression Trustees’ Award
Journalism 2021
Samira Sabou is a Nigerien journalist and blogger and is the winner of the 2021 Freedom of Expression Award in the journalism category
Campaigning 2021
Abdelrahman Tarek is the winner in the 2021 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards Campaigning category
Arts 2021
Tatyana Zelenskaya is the 2021 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards Arts Fellow
Champions of free expression celebrated at Index on Censorship awards
Winners from Egypt, Kyrgyzstan, Niger and the UK named at ceremony
Call for Afghan actors, writers and film-makers to be given safe passage
More than 80 luminaries from the world of film and theatre have written an open letter to The Times
Members of the LGBTQ+ community sign letter calling for reform to Online Safety Bill
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dear Editor, As proud members of the LGBTQ+ community, we know first-hand the vile abuse that regularly takes place online. The data is clear; 78% of us have faced anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime or hate speech online in...
Letters from Belarus: Maria Kolesnikova
Reader's Note: In September 2020, the prominent Belarusian opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova was abducted from Minsk and taken to the border where security forces tried to expel her from the country; she ripped up her passport in defiance. In the...