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Contents – Unsung heroes: How musicians are raising their voices against oppression
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CATEGORY: United Kingdom
Media regulator fails to properly protect freedom of expression in online safety draft guidance
Index on Censorship criticises Ofcom’s inadequate ‘passing references’ to users’ privacy rights and warns of legal battles if draft guidance on encryption is not updated
The power of protest
Peaceful demonstration is a fundamental form of self expression, and a crucial mechanism of any democracy
Index launches year-end banned books competition
Solve fiendish cryptic clues from the mind of author Marc Nash to identify the book titles and win one of five 12-month magazine subscriptions
Spiked stories revealed under parliamentary privilege
MPs from across the political spectrum have spoken about the curdling impact of legal threats and called for action on an anti-SLAPP law
Contents – Inconvenient truths: How scientists are being silenced around the world
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Is jail time for Just Stop Oil protesters justified?
When countries like the UK and the USA start punitively punishing peaceful but disruptive protesters, the world needs to be on watch
The hypocrisy of how Western democracies respond to protest
Nations in the “Global North” continue to crack down on protests and freedom of expression, while condemning similar actions abroad
Who holds the pen on scrutinising the most powerful?
The influence wielded by newspapers has come into sharp focus in the past week
The corporate silencing of the truth about Ukraine’s “Holocaust by bullets”
Index co-hosted the private UK premiere of an important film about the Babyn Yar massacre to persuade CBS News to release key footage