When Angolan police raided the homes of a book group deemed a threat, they seized all papers from their homes, from university notebooks to a mother’s magazines
The Angolan regime is afraid of books
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Hungary: Government cracks down on freedom of information
Bill granting Hungarian authorities new powers to withhold information believed to be a response to recent use of freedom of information requests to expose wasteful government spending
Malaysia: Sedition case against cartoonist Zunar adjourned
Index calls on Malaysia to immediately drop all charges against Zunar and respect free expression
Bahrain: Free Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace
Nine Bahraini and international NGOs and the University College Union launched a campaign this week marking the 100th day of detained human rights defender Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace’s hunger strike
Handbook on laws protecting free expression launched
The handbook aims to provide journalists and bloggers worldwide with guidance on the international legal framework protecting their rights to freedom of expression
#SilencedOnCampus: Index magazine launch debates threats to academic freedom
The debate tackled issues ranging from safe spaces and the right to offend, to the absence of absolute freedom of speech and illegal versus legal speech
Padraig Reidy: Why Golders Green isn’t Britain’s Skokie
This is the British way of free expression; a matter of practicality rather than principle, a pliable concept, one that can almost always be tempered by appeals to taste
Our knowledge about the past shouldn’t be restricted, says former UN free speech rapporteur
I want to know the past, people shouldn’t be able to alter records, said former UN free speech guru Frank La Rue
“I feel strong”: Moroccan rapper El Haqed defiant after concert is shut down by police
A former Index Youth Advisory Board member travelled to Casablanca to see Moroccan rapper El Haqed’s first concert in the country. This is her account of the police crackdown that silenced the performance
Padraig Reidy: A disgraceful use of the Communications Act
The prosecution of Pastor James McConnell under the Communications Act is the action of a prosecution service more interested in appearing to be liberal than upholding justice and rights