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Gang members banned from making “drill” music
The Metropolitan Police sought an unprecedented Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) against the teenage and young adult defendants, prohibiting them from making music in the genre
Say no to Article 13’s censorship machine
From academics and journalists to parents uploading videos of their children, Article 13’s upload filter would impact professional and ordinary content creators alike.
Join the youth advisory board
Index on Censorship is recruiting for its next youth advisory board, which will sit from July to December 2018.
Cuba’s first alternative art biennial: “We built an inclusive space of free creation and true collaboration”
Despite every effort to stop it in its tracks, Cuba saw the successful completion of its first independent art biennial, organised without the support of the state
Turkish artists continue their work in the face of repression
The last time Onur Erem and his girlfriend Zehra Doğan, a Turkish artist and journalist, met face-to-face, she was chirpy and seemed happy, he recalls
Elephant in the room: It’s all well and good protecting the far right, but what about everyone else’s rights?
The final performance of my play Elephant was cancelled in Birmingham, bizarrely the same city where, 13 years ago, my play Behzti was closed after protests turned violent
Censorship gone viral: The cross-fertilisation of repression
Censorship has cross-fertilised and gone viral infecting both democracies and their authoritarian counterparts.
No future without the past
Turkey’s academia witch hunt hits Kurdish studies the most
Russia: Telegram block leads to widespread assault on freedom of expression online
53 international and Russian human rights, media and Internet freedom organisations, strongly condemn the attempts by the Russian Federation to block the Internet messaging service Telegram.
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