The autumn 2020 podcast covers the theme of the Disappeared: How people, books and ideas are taken away, with Oliver Farry and Michella Oré
Volume 49.03 Autumn 2020
The signatories to a letter in Harpers magazine about open debate are familiar to Index magazine
A reading list of articles from the Index archive when Hongkongers were wondering what the handover from Britain to China would mean
How much do you actually know about tracking apps after months of reading about them? Take our quiz and see
Our reporters in Spain, Italy and South Korea talk to citizens about the free speech implications of using Covid apps
Why don’t we learn that censorship and lack of trust in society puts us all at risk, particularly in times of crisis, asks Rachael Jolley in the summer 2020 issue of Index on Censorship magazine
Technology presenter Timandra Harkness argues that we need to get our privacy back at the end of the crisis
The spring 2020 Index on Censorship magazine podcast with Mary Ellen Klas, Moa Petersén and Noelle Mateer discusses surveillance in China, the Swedish trend to put microchips under the skin and the worsening media environment in the USA as a result of coronavirus
The summer 2020 issue of the magazine looks at the different ways in which we are giving away our privacy as we try to tackle Covid-19
A quarterly journal set up in 1972, Index on Censorship magazine has published oppressed writers and refused to be silenced across hundreds of issues.
The brainchild of the poet Stephen Spender, and translator Michael Scammell, the magazine’s very first issue included a never-before-published poem, written while serving a sentence in a labour camp, by the Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who went on to win a Nobel prize later that year.
The magazine continued to be a thorn in the side of Soviet censors, but its scope was far wider. From the beginning, Index declared its mission to stand up for free expression as a fundamental human right for people everywhere – it was particularly vocal in its coverage of the oppressive military regimes of southern Europe and Latin America but was also clear that freedom of expression was not only a problem in faraway dictatorships. The winter 1979 issue, for example, reported on a controversy in the United States in which the Public Broadcasting Service had heavily edited a documentary about racism in Britain and then gone to court attempting to prevent screenings of the original version. Learn more.