Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei is the joint winner in the 2020 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards Campaigning category and a 2020 Fellow
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Campaigning 2020
Veysel Ok is the joint winner in the 2020 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards Campaigning category and a 2020 Fellow
Arts 2020
Yulia Tsvetkova is the 2020 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards Arts Fellow
2020 awards shortlist: Digital activism nominees announced
Three organisations from Egypt, Palestine and Canada are shortlisted in this Freedom of Expression awards category
2020 awards shortlist: Meet our campaigning nominees
Campaigners for LGBT recognition in Africa, a group supporting long-term detainees in Turkmenistan, an exiled critic of the Bahraini government and a lawyer who provides pro-bono legal support to Turkish activists have made the shortlist
2020 awards shortlist: Recognising the journalism that lets all the world’s voices be heard
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="112436" img_size="full"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Journalists are at the frontline of protecting freedom of speech around the world and we recognise these annually in Index on...
2020 Arts shortlist: Using rap and YouTube satire to protect free speech
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="112380" img_size="large"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Hip-hop, satirical YouTube videos, a youth arts festival and rap are some of the ways in which art is being used today to...
Social sex entrepreneur, artist and top journalist to judge Freedom of Expression Awards
The awards honour champions of free expression and those battling censorship around the world in the field of arts, campaigning, digital activism and journalism.
This Week at Index: Judges announced for 2020 Freedom of Expression Awards
Index on Censorship is proud to announce three new judges for its 2020 Freedom of Expression Awards. These are New York-based artist Molly Crabapple, award-winning Guardian journalist Amelia Gentleman and Cindy Gallop, founder of social sex video platform MakeLoveNotPorn.
This Week at Index: A look back at 2019, and a new issue
This week, Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced that he would resign in January – news which was welcomed by all those who have been protesting regularly for him to quit – but which also prompted calls that he should go immediately
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.