Because of the very nature of artistic expression itself: that the more ways the censors try to find to shut down the ideas, the beliefs they don’t like, the more artists find creative ways to express those same ideas.
Index on Censorship CEO Jodie Ginsberg explores how censorship undermines the tenets of free and democratic societies
Free speech — genuine free speech that tolerates the ideas we find most offensive — must apply equally
New laws to limit and surveil speech on and offline are not the way to tackle extremism. Our response must not be to curtail those very freedoms.
Jodie Ginsberg, CEO of Index on Censorship, spoke about hate speech at the 30th anniversary of the Rafto Forum, Bergen, 2016
An Index tweet from March is being used as evidence against Nabeel Rajab, a Bahraini human rights activist
Threats against freedom of expression come in all shapes and sizes. We need to stand up to the bullies together.
The UK government should look to what is happening to free expression in Egypt and Turkey before broadening terrorist laws to include those who “spread hate”.
Free expression is not a “nice-to-have” add-on, a mere luxury principle tacked on the end of other more basic rights
Cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Haque, aka Zunar, currently faces a record number of nine simultaneous charges under Malaysia’s controversial sedition act in a trial that is scheduled to begin on July 7.
King’s College hosts Alan Turing debate to mark 500th anniversary of King’s Chapel
Justice, Money, Power debate at the City of London Festival