The Metropolitan Police has made hundreds of requests to remove online content in the past year. Every single one of them related to drill music. This is dangerously close to systemic racism, believes Shereener Browne
CATEGORY: Artistic Freedom
Landmark report finds China using arts “to silence critics and drive censorship”
Major new investigation from Index on Censorship reveals the scale and reach of the CCP’s international soft power push across the European arts landscape
New report on China’s influence on the world of art
A new report demonstrates how the Chinese Communist Party uses art to extend the reach of censorship into cities across Europe
Banned by Beijing: Artistic Freedom and CCP Censorship in Europe
“How to protect the freedom of the individual, including that of the artist, when the limits of government power are ever expanding, is a question...
Where poetry is labelled extremism
The removal of the Rajapaksa clan will not solve Sri Lanka’s deeply ingrained problem with corruption and the repression of dissent
“I wrote a play then lost my home, my husband and my trust”
Turkish playwright Meltem Arikan’s Mi Minör was blamed for the seminal Gezi Park protests that convulsed Istanbul
Censorship is still in the script
In June 2015, a national newspaper in Britain started a campaign to have a play banned. This surprised me for two reasons. One: clearly no one had...
Testament to the power of theatre as rebellion
The Belarus Free Theatre, whose 16 members have now gone into exile to escape the Lukashenka regime, are preparing to perform at the Barbican in London in 2022
“We need more courageous writers in theatre,” says leading Turkish playwright
Two Turkish writers discuss Index on Censorship’s new magazine, which looks at how playwrights and directors are resisting oppression
Russia: Drop all charges against Yulia Tsvetkova
Award-winning artist faces six years in jail for her work promoting body positivity and women’s rights