Meet the three shortlisted artists for this year’s award
Nominees for the 2022 Freedom of Expression Awards – Arts
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Index raises concerns over exclusion of journalists from UK Home Secretary’s Rwanda visit
Alert filed with Council of Europe over key media being unable to hold Priti Patel to account as she announces migrant plan
Democracies are losing their moral authority to intervene
When our leaders opt in and out of laws and norms they don’t like then repressive regimes thrive and their citizens are the ones that suffer
“I believe in a new Russia but Putin is going nowhere”
Russian liberal politician, economist and professor Grigory Yavlinsky has long been a thorn in the side of Vladimir Putin. As the founder of the Russian United Democratic Party (Yabloko), which was the leading opposition party in post-Soviet...
Online Safety Bill will “significantly curtail freedom of expression”
Gavin Millar QC has produced the first analysis of the implications of the Bill for the British media and journalism, the courts and the UK’s digital economy
Attacks on journalists covering protests increase says new report
The latest annual report from the Council of Europe safety of journalists platform makes for worrying reading on media freedom
Apple’s Chinese and Russian takedowns come under scrutiny
A new report by GreatFire and whistleblower Ashley Gjovik reveals the tech giant complies with far more requests from the two governments than elsewhere
In trying to protect us online, legislators risk silencing us
We all want to protect each other from seeing the worst of humanity but we have no right not to be offended
Dissidents, spies and the lies that came in from the cold
Index on Censorship started at the front line of an ideological war
Index condemns lawsuit against Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins
21 organisations say lawsuit issued by Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin is a SLAPP