The editor of the Observer has joined with press freedom campaigners to call for “robust” action against the use of lawsuits to “silence and...
Index on Censorship
Ursula von der Leyen must ensure media freedom and protection of journalists are priority
Twenty press freedom organisations have written to the new president of the European Commission to urge that media freedom is made a top priority.
Brexit funder Arron Banks threatens Netflix over Great Hack documentary (The Guardian)
The businessman Arron Banks and the unofficial Brexit campaign Leave.EU have issued a legal threat against streaming giant Netflix in relation to...
Letter: press freedom campaigners call for action on ‘vexatious lawsuits’ (The Guardian)
Following the recent global conference on media freedom held in London by the UK government, we write to draw your attention to what appears to be a...
This week at Index: Dirty, awful and obscene and the joy of reading freely
This week, Index’s CEO Jodie Ginsberg appeared in The Telegraph and on the British Library’s podcast
Turkish Artist Zehra Doğan Detained in Berlin (Artforum, 18 July 2019)
Artist and activist Zehra Doğan, who was recently incarcerated in Turkey for painting the destruction of a Kurdish city by the military, was...
Artist Zehra Doğan Detained Following Protest at Berlin’s Pergamon Museum (Hyperallergic, 18 July 2019
German police briefly detained Kurdish artist and journalist Zehra Doğan last Saturday following a protest she staged inside the Pergamon Museum....
Anything But Silent: [Redacted] (British Library)
Index CEO Jodie Ginsberg appears on the British Library's podcast Anything But Silent to discuss forbidden books and the joys of being able to read...
Andrew Graham-Yooll obituary (The Guardian)
During the dark days of the military dictatorship in Argentina in the 1970s, there was only one newspaper that dared to publish the names of the...
Andrew Graham-Yooll, Telegraph and Buenos Aires Herald correspondent who risked his life reporting on Argentina’s ‘missing’ (The Telegraph)
Andrew Graham-Yooll, the British-Argentine journalist who has died aged 75, was a star reporter for the Buenos Aires Herald during the “Dirty War”...
Index at Latitude: Forest Folktales
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German police briefly detain Kurdish artist protesting destruction of Hasankeyf (Ahval, 13 July 2019)
German police on Saturday briefly detained Kurdish artist and journalist Zehra Doğan following a protest she led against the destruction of a...