The cyber crimes bill passed by Pakistan’s lower legislative chamber is unacceptable and needs major changes, Bolo Bhi told Index on Censorship.
Bolo Bhi: Pakistan’s cyber crimes bill needs major changes
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Untitled, @MuradSubay, 14/4/16
“I invite people like this: I just say – you paint now.” That’s how it works with artist Murad Subay.
Smockey: “The people in Europe don’t know what the governments in Africa do.”
Burkinabe rapper and activist Smockey officially becomes the inaugural Music in Exile Fellow
Zaina Erhaim: Syria’s Rebellious Women
A series of short documentaries directed by 2016 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards finalist Zaina Erhaim were screened at the...
Zaina Erhaim: “I want to give this award to the Syrians who are being terrorised”
While journalists and citizens fled, Syrian-native Zaina Erhaim returned to her war-ravaged country and the city of Aleppo in 2013 to ensure those...
Bolo Bhi: “What’s important is the process, and that we keep at it”
Bolo Bhi are a digital campaigning group who have orchestrated an impressive ongoing fight against attempts to censor the internet in Pakistan. The...
GreatFire: “Technology has been used to censor online speech — and to circumvent this censorship”
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales read anonymous collective GreatFire's acceptance speech. We are honoured to have been chosen as the winner of Index’s...
Murad Subay: “I dedicate this award today to the unknown people who struggle to survive”
I am honoured to be here with all of you today and for that, I would like to thank Index on Censorship for giving me this award, for believing in me and for acknowledging our work back home.
#IndexAwards2016: Zaina Erhaim trains Syrian women to report on the war
A Syrian-native who was studying journalism in London when war broke out in Syria in 2013, Zaina Erhaim decided to return permanently to report and train citizen journalists in the war-ravaged country
#IndexAwards2016: GreatFire campaigns for transparency of China’s censorship
GreatFire was set up in 2011 by three anonymous individuals to counter the “Great Firewall of China”, the systematic blocking by the Chinese government of any website deemed controversial