Laura Silvia Battaglia recalls the last play she saw in Gaza and talks to its director today about how theatre is still providing a voice for the displaced, even in refugee camps
The unstilled voice of Gazan theatre
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CATEGORY: Middle East and North Africa
Iran: Complaint to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in response to the ongoing judicial persecution of Toomaj Salehi
Index on Censorship, Human Rights Foundation and Doughty Street Chambers make submission on behalf of rapper’s family
How Russia is shaping the Syrian media narrative
The way that announcements about illnesses and deaths are reported shows signs of external influence
Exhibition about Russian political prisoners cancelled over Israel-Gaza row
A London art gallery has pulled an exhibition about Russian dissidents because an Israeli artist refused to condemn “the Zionist regime”
Iran’s supreme court overturns death sentence given to Toomaj Salehi
Decision welcomed by Toomaj Salehi’s family, Index on Censorship, Human Rights Foundation and Salehi’s international legal team
Iranian cartoonist Atena Farghadani sentenced to six years in prison
Facing “harshest punishment” for her activism,
Atena Farghadani must be released immediately
The silencing of media in times of war
National security arguments cannot become a tool to control free expression in democratic societies
Are people in Israel getting the full story on Gaza?
The world is seeing a completely different war from the domestic audience
Israeli military censor bans highest number of articles in over a decade
The sharp rise in media censorship in 2023 comes as the Israeli government further undermines press freedoms, especially amid the Gaza war
Bahrain: Joint letter on human rights situation to the United Nations Human Rights Council
Index joins more than 30 other organisations to raise concerns over the situation in the country 13 years after popular uprisings were quashed