Liu Xiaobo, China’s most famous free speech advocate, was released from prison last week on health grounds. Index looks back at the life and work of the Nobel laureate.
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo’s chair is still empty
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CATEGORY: Digital Freedom
Mapping Media Freedom: Press restrictions in Spain highlight need for improved policy
Within the last month, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom platform has recorded a number of restrictions on media access to events in Spain by police and politicians
Advocates from five nations demand their governments respect strong encryption
Organisations and individuals from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the USA sent letters to their respective governments insisting that they defend strong encryption
Index at Afropunk London
Join Index on Censorship at Afropunk London to discuss freedom of expression on Activism Row.
Charges against Angolan journalist Rafael Marques de Morais must be dropped
The Angolan government should immediately drop all charges against journalist and human rights activist Rafael Marques de Morais, winner of Index on Censorship’s Freedom of Expression Award and Fellowship in 2015.
Banned Books Week 2017 to Celebrate Everyone’s Freedom to Read (American Booksellers)
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]At a time of deep political division, this year’s Banned Books Week, September 24–30, will celebrate the...
100 years on
The summer 2017 issue of Index on Censorship magazine explores how the consequences of the 1917 Russian Revolution still affect freedoms today, in Russia and around the world. Andrei Arkhangelsky argues that the Soviet impulse to censor never left Russia, North Korea art expert BG Muhn shows how the nation’s art was initially, at least, affected by the USSR, and Nina Khrushcheva, a great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, reflects on the Soviet echoes in Trump’s use of the phrase “enemies of the people”.
Mapping Media Freedom: Journalists detained at Russian protests
Over the last seven days protests, lawsuits, and self-proclaimed governments have stopped journalists from doing their jobs in countries covered by Index on Censorship’s project Mapping Media Freedom.
The Netherlands: Journalists stand up against online sexual harassment
A petition urging advertisers to withdraw their ads from provocative right-wing blog GeenStijl, shook up The Netherlands last month.
Petition challenges Pakistan’s censorship in court
Nine Pakistani citizens have filed a constitutional petition in Pakistan to challenge censorship and recent arrests of journalists and activists