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On International Women’s Day, a call for justice for Egyptian human rights defender Amal Fathy
[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...
#IndexAwards2019: Artist Zehra Doğan refused to be silenced
Released from prison on 24 February 2019, Zehra Doğan is a Kurdish painter and journalist who, during her imprisonment, was denied access to materials for her work.
#IndexAwards2019: Ms Saffaa’s murals confront Saudi oppression
Ms Saffaa is a self-exiled Saudi street artist living in Australia who uses murals to highlight women’s rights and human rights violations in Saudi Arabia.
#IndexAwards2019: ElMadina for Performing and Digital Arts challenges Egypt’s restrictive laws
ElMadina for Performing and Digital Arts is a group of artists and arts managers who combine art and protest by encouraging Egyptians to get involved in performances in public spaces, defying the country’s restrictive laws.
#IndexAwards2019: ArtLords motivates grassroots to address Afghanistan’s issues
ArtLords is a grassroots movement of artists and volunteers in Afghanistan who encourage ordinary citizens, especially women and children, to paint the issues that concern them on so-called blast walls: walls the country’s rich and the powerful have built around themselves to protect them from violence while the poor fend for themselves.
Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist Mehman Huseynov released from prison
Index on Censorship welcomes the release of Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist Mehman Huseynov.
Habari RDC: Congo’s internet shutdown disrupted news outlets under the guise of tackling fake news
The shutdown lasted for 20 days — from 31 December 2018 until 19 January 2019 — and had major implications for the country, except for select businesses
Threat of arrest must be dropped for Egyptian women’s rights defender Amal Fathy
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Index on Censorship, the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) and counsel at Doughty Street...
Kurdish artist Zehra Doğan released from Turkish prison
Index on Censorship welcomes the release of 2019 Freedom of Expression Arts Award nominee
The Freedom of Expression Awards and Fellowship is a key Index on Censorship programme designed to highlight and amplify the work of some of the world’s most courageous defenders of freedom of expression. Previous winners include Journalist Fergal Keane, novelist Ma Jian, lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, activist Malala Yousafzai, cartoonist Ali Ferzat, journalists Anna Politkovskaya and Fergal Keane, and Bahrain Center for Human Rights. Learn more.