Campaigners for LGBT recognition in Africa, a group supporting long-term detainees in Turkmenistan, an exiled critic of the Bahraini government and a lawyer who provides pro-bono legal support to Turkish activists have made the shortlist
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="112436" img_size="full"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Journalists are at the frontline of protecting freedom of speech around the world and we recognise these annually in Index on...
Events at Free Word and the Bloomsbury Institute, plus talks for International Women’s Day and Essex Book Festival are just some calendar highlights coming up
“The assertion that ‘I believe in free speech, but . . .’ has become depressingly familiar,” said Index on Censorship chief executive Jodie Ginsberg in the Thunderer column in The Times today. Read the full article
As China revokes the press credentials of three foreign journalists, we speak to Austin Ramzy about his own experience of having to leave the country because of a story
Index on Censorship is carrying out research into the scale and nature of vexatious legal threats and actions against journalists in Europe
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="105876" img_size="large"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]14 February 2020 – Valentine’s Day – marks my last day at Index on Censorship after nearly six years at the helm. It feels...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="112380" img_size="large"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Hip-hop, satirical YouTube videos, a youth arts festival and rap are some of the ways in which art is being used today to...