To stop people entering Britain because of what they may say while here is based on the concept of pre-emptive sanction says Padraig Reidy Dyab Abou...
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UK ‘least wanted’ list published
The Home Office has released a list of sixteen people banned from entering the UK for their extremist views. The list includies Islamists, white...
Binyam Mohamed: Foreign Office attempts to file ‘secret evidence’
Index on Censorship has learned that government lawyers are attempting to submit secret evidence on the treatment of former Guantanamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed, as the Foreign Office continues to attempt to prevent the release of potentially damning information about his detention.
‘Banned’ poet becomes first female laureate
Carol Ann Duffy, whose poem 'Education for Leisure' was withdrawn from schoolbooks over fears it encouraged violence, has been appointed the UK's...
Cuts demanded for Knightley domestic violence advert
Clearcast, the company that regulates television advertising on behalf of Ofcom, has requested that violent scenes be removed from an anti-domestic...
UK government rules out central database
The British government has said it will not now go ahead with plans to create a cenrtal communications database. Read more here
Pakistan: reporting the student ‘terror trail’
Zubeida Mustafa examines the Pakistani media's response to the arrests of eleven Pakistani students now facing deportation from the UK At a time...
Information Commissioner: Google Street View should not be stopped
The UK's Information Commissioner has said there will be no move to censor Google Street View, despite admitting it carries a small risk of privacy...
‘We expect a bias for freedom’
In a stirring and provocative speech at the Freedom of Expression awards, Sir David Hare presented a challenge for Index on Censorship, and all free...
‘A government more concerned with silencing critics than addressing its own failures’
News that anti-terror officers trawled Damian Green MP’s personal emails for information, including details of Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti,...