Index on Censorship, Reporters Without Borders UK, and Transparency International UK are asking Azerbaijani authorities to reconsider a travel ban...
Around the Bloc – 16 January (Transitions Online)
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CATEGORY: Index in the Press
Azerbaijan Urged To Lift Journalist’s ‘Unjust’ Travel Ban (RFE/RL)
Three nongovernmental organizations are urging Azerbaijan to lift a travel ban against investigative reporter Khadija Ismayilova and allow her to...
Human rights groups demand Azerbaijan lift travel ban on investigative journalist (Emerging Europe)
“Azerbaijan is unjustly and unfairly preventing Khadija Ismayilova from travelling internationally as a means to punish her and stifle the spread of...
Standing up to the new machos (Eurozine)
Index on Censorship looks at machismo as a political category. Resisting the suffocation of dissent in the era of the internet means standing up...
Index on Censorship project to expose ‘vexatious’ legal threats on journalists (The Shift)
UK-based non-profit organisation Index on Censorship will be launching a new research project later this month that will expose the extent to which individuals with wealth and influence use “vexatious” legal threats to shut down investigations into their practices.
‘This beautiful and hospitable country’: a German Jewish family finds refuge in Dublin (The Irish Times)
Publisher Ursula Owen recounts her grandparents’ escape from Nazi Germany to Ireland via London. Ursula Owen was a founding director of Virago Press in 1974 and later joint managing director. In the 1990s, she became a director of the Paul Hamlyn Fund, cultural policy adviser to the British Labour Party and chief executive of Index on Censorship.
Art and Creative Acts That Were Censored in 2019 (Hyperallergic)
Freedom of speech and creativity continued to face acute threats in 2019, but artists and curators continue to be at the forefront of the dangerous...
Mr X tries to censor reports of sexual assault allegations (The Times)
A multimillionaire at the centre of a police investigation over sexual assault allegations is trying to censor newspaper reports, though he is...
Woman Fired For Saying ‘Men Cannot Change Into Women,’ Judge Sides With Her Employer (Opposing Views)
An employee of a leading think tank was fired for publicly arguing that transgender women were not real women. Maya Forstater was a tax expert for...
J.K. Rowling is a TERF, Surprising Virtually No One (The Blemish)
People have long speculated that J.K. Rowling, creator of Harry Potter and nothing else of note since, is secretly a transphobe. Until today, the...
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