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Landmark report finds China using arts “to silence critics and drive censorship”
Major new investigation from Index on Censorship reveals the scale and reach of the CCP’s international soft power push across the European arts landscape
New legal opinion on the Online Safety Bill
Index on Censorship has commissioned a legal opinion by Matthew Ryder KC and finds that the powers conceived would not be lawful under our common law and the existing human rights legal framework
Letter to Justice Secretary: Adoption of a UK Anti-SLAPP Law
Editors, journalists, lawyers and academics write to Dominic Raab to express support for the Model UK Anti-SLAPP Law launched by the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition
A new generation of protesters in China?
Trying to make sense of the protests in China right now is hard but one thing’s certain – they hint at the existence of greater dissent than the CCP realised
Failed empty gesture 0 – 1 Strong silent stand
The Iranian team’s defiant stand against oppression at the World Cup in Qatar puts everyone else to shame
Italy: a call in support of Roberto Saviano
The Italian writer is facing a lawsuit for aggravated defamation initiated by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
“The Online Safety Bill will fundamentally undermine rights to freedom of expression”
Index and other organisations ask UN Special Rapporteurs to intervene on proposed UK legislation
Junket journalism is taking off in China
China’s attempts to woo foreign journalists and bloggers in bid to control conversation
Questions that Sunak should have asked Mohammad bin Salman at G20…(but probably didn’t)
As we continue to mark the ongoing detention of University of Leeds PhD student Salma al-Shehab, we look at what could have been discussed at this morning’s meeting