According to leaked details, it will include a statutory duty of care, which will be enforced by a regulator. Ofcom is expected to take on the role of regulator to begin, with a new regulator established later.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] On International Women's Day Doughty Street Chambers and Index on Censorship renew calls for the threat of arrest to be dropped for Egyptian women's rights defender Amal Fathy. Ms Fathy, who made a video about...
Jodie Ginsberg comments on calls by politicians to ban Tommy Robinson from YouTube.
Index on Censorship has joined with Open Rights Group and Digital Rights Partners to warn the UK government that its proposals for tackling online content pose a real risk to freedom of expression.
Index on Censorship welcomes the release of Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist Mehman Huseynov.
Index urges proposed legislation that would restrict artistic freedom be discarded
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Index on Censorship, the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) and counsel at Doughty Street Chambers have filed further information at the request of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention...
Index on Censorship condemns a criminal indictment sent to a Turkish court against 16 civil society leaders including artist Meltem Arikan, actors Memet Ali Alabora and Pinar Ogun, and journalist Can Dündar.
Thursday 21 February 2019 will commemorate a full year since the assassination of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová in Slovakia. Kuciak was investigating cross-border corruption and links between powerful people and various mafia networks.
Index on Censorship welcomes a report by the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee into disinformation and fake news that calls for greater transparency on social media companies’ decision making processes, on who posts political advertising and on use of personal data.
Statements from freedom of expression organisation Index on Censorship, the global voice of free expression