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Interview with Justice for Journalists’ Maria Ordzhonikidze: how Russia is using Covid to clamp down on the media
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In March 2020, Index on Censorship partnered with Justice for Journalists Foundation to keep track of attacks on media freedom under cover of the Covid-19 pandemic. Four months on and the project has recorded...
Ruth Smeeth: “Index will always be a home for people who want to be heard”
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="104009" img_size="full"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]There are so many ways you can infringe on someone else’s free speech and obviously some examples are much more egregious...
Who will protect us?
With the re-election of Andrzej Duda as president of Poland, whose campaign featured attacks on the media, independent journalists fear for their future
#HoldTheLine Coalition calls on Philippines authorities to drop Maria Ressa charges ahead of 22 July hearing
Rappler founder faces up to a century in jail from the various tax and libel charges ranged against her
Interview with Özlem Dalkıran of the Istanbul 10: “It was a clear message to civil society in Turkey: Stop”
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On 5 July 2017, human rights defenders from a number of different organisations gathered on the island of Büyükada for a workshop on the protection of digital information. On the third day of the workshop, ten of...
Ruth Smeeth: “We must make sure that journalism survives the pandemic”
The plight of the Uighurs shows that we must ensure their stories continue to be reported
The Harpers open debate letter: a reading list
The signatories to a letter in Harpers magazine about open debate are familiar to Index magazine
Interview with Nadine Strossen: “People should feel free to engage in respectful but robust and highly critical debate”
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Index on Censorship's editor in chief Rachael Jolley speaks with Professor Nadine Strossen of New York Law School and a former head of the American Civil Liberties Union. Strossen is one of 150 writers and...
Ruth Smeeth: “Free speech is a force for good”
150 writers and academics have signed an open letter saying the forces of illiberalism are gaining strength throughout the world