Arif Ahmed is a free speech activist and a fellow of Gonville & Caius College at the University of Cambridge and is the winner of the 2021 Freedom of Expression Trustees’ Award
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CATEGORY: United Kingdom
Champions of free expression celebrated at Index on Censorship awards
Winners from Egypt, Kyrgyzstan, Niger and the UK named at ceremony
Secret agenda
A reform of the UK’s Official Secrets Act would mean that journalists with confidential documents could face harsher penalties than the spies who handed them over, reports Martin Bright
Are we becoming Hungary-lite?
Jolyon Rubinstein fears a British legislative agenda that could stifle protest, satire and the very foundations of democracy
Government’s Online Safety Bill will be “catastrophic for ordinary people’s freedom of speech” says David Davis MP
Leading experts brand Government’s Bill “catastrophic” at press conference today
The free speech Euros: Group D
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In celebration of one of football’s biggest international tournaments, here is Index’s guide to the free speech Euros. Who comes out on top as the nation with the worst record on free speech? It’s simple, the...
The free speech Euros: Group A
As Europe’s eyes turn to the football, Index’s look at free speech in the competing nations
Remembering Jo Cox five years on
Why we need to heed the words from the maiden speech of the murdered MP more than ever
Wake up Williamson: the Magdalen College controversy
It’s the students who should decide whose picture is on the wall of their common room, not the education secretary
Statement on the Maya Forstater judgement
The case before the Employment Appeal Tribunal was about protecting in law the right to hold certain beliefs