Statements by Index on Censorship Global voice of free expression

UN should address Turkey’s crackdown against journalists

Eighteen international organisations have written to the UN Human Rights Council to ask that it address the Turkish government’s repressive campaign against freedom of expression

Cameroon must immediately release rapper Valsero

by Index on Censorship | 03 Sep 19

Index on Censorship calls on Cameroon to immediately release rapper and pro-democracy activist Gaston Serval Abe, known as Valsero.

Maldives must pursue murderers of journalists

by Index on Censorship | 03 Sep 19

Index on Censorship calls on the Maldivian authorities to step up their investigation and pursue the individuals behind the murders of the journalist Ahmed Rilwan Abdulla and blogger Yameen Rasheed.

Censorship cannot create a more equal society

by Index on Censorship | 28 Aug 19

Proposals to address so-called hate groups put forward by the Tony Blair Institute risk damaging freedom of speech in the UK, Index on Censorship warned.

Attack on journalist Owen Jones shows the worsening state of press freedom in the UK

by Index on Censorship | 27 Aug 19

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Monday 26th August 2019 Rt. Hon. Nicky Morgan MP Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 100...

Urgent appeal in relation to the arrest and detention of Omoyele Sowore, Nigerian journalist and human rights defender

by Index on Censorship | 23 Aug 19

48 human rights and press freedom organisations have lodged an urgent appeal in relation to the arrest and arbitrary detention of Nigerian journalist and human rights defender Omoyele Sowore

Organisations call on Russia to end targeting of journalists covering Moscow protests

by Index on Censorship | 22 Aug 19

A coalition of eight media freedom and journalists’ organisations are calling on Russian authorities to immediately stop the harassment of journalists who have been covering the recent protests in Moscow.