A conference followed by a day of performance to consider hip hop’s role in revolutionary social, political and economic movements across the world.
8-9 July: The power of hip hop
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Bahrain continues to use arbitrary detention as a weapon to silence critics
Bahraini authorities this week released opposition activist Zainab al-Khawaja, who had been imprisoned with her infant son since March but continues to use arbitrary arrest and imprisonment to silence its critics.
“Censure me in your wisdom”: Bowdlerized Shakespeare in the nineteenth century
Shakespeare has been used to divert around censorship, “sanitised” and redacted for children, young adults and school use, and even used as a form of protest
Reimagining the Magna Carta: Teens bring the historic document into the 21st century
Eighteen British teenagers have launched Magna Carta 2.0. “What a Liberty!, based on passionate young voices, giving us the tools and freedom to express who we are and what we believe in.”
Azerbaijan: Around the world protestors celebrate Khadija Ismayilova’s birthday
Organisations and individuals from across the world took to the streets to celebrate the investigative journalist’s birthday and call for the release of all political prisoners in Azerbaijan
Spain: Widespread legal action against journalists serve to “spread fear”
Mapping Media Freedom correspondent Miho Dobrašin explores the recent wave of legal measures and threats against journalists in Spain
Azerbaijan: Index on Censorship calls for Khadija Ismayilova’s convictions to be quashed
Index on Censorship calls for all Khadija Ismayilova’s convictions to be quashed following the reduction in her jail sentence to a three-and-a-half-year suspended term
Azerbaijan: Journalist Khadija Ismayilova released from prison
Investigative reporter Khadija Ismayilova has been released from prison on probation in Azerbaijan after an international campaign to free her
Who is investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova?
One of Azerbaijan’s most celebrated journalists, Ismayilova’s investigative reports included, among other things, exposing Azerbaijan’s human rights abuses and the corruption involving the family of president Ilham Aliyev
Mapping Media Freedom: Two years of uncovering attacks on Europe’s press
Mapping Media Freedom launched to the public on 24 May 2014. Two years on, the platform has verified over 1,800 media violations