Index on Censorship has filed an official notification with the Council of Europe raising concerns about the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill’s impacts on media freedom in the UK.
ALQST for Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, English PEN, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), Index on Censorship, and PEN International call on the authorities in Saudi Arabia to release Yemeni writer and online activist Marwan Al-Muraisy, who has been subject to enforced disappearance since June.
Index on Censorship explores the impact of Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill on academic freedom with Dr Lawrence McNamara
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Parliament needs to stop creating piecemeal laws to address content online - or which make new forms of speech...
Index on Censorship believes that the UK’s Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill should go back to the drawing board.
NGOs around the world call on their governments to publicly engage with Saudi Arabia to call for the release of detained writers and activists, and to issue strong recommendations to end restrictions on the right to freedom of expression.
The Law Commission will review how sex and gender characteristics are treated within existing hate crime laws and whether new offences are needed.
Leading writers including Margaret Atwood, Elif Shafak and Claire Tomalin have signed an open letter to the king of Bahrain urging him to intervene in the case of a political prisoner being denied the right to read in jail.
Index on Censorship joins a coalition of some of the world’s leading human rights and digital rights organisations to call for full repeal of Egypt’s “cybercrime” law
Index CEO Jodie Ginsberg tweets her reaction to the announcement that Steve Bannon has been disinvited from a New Yorker event after protests about his inclusion.
Statements from freedom of expression organisation Index on Censorship, the global voice of free expression