You may have noticed the announcement earlier this week of a joint inquiry in to libel by Index on Censorship and English PEN. The issue of the...
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IWF reverses Virgin Killer ban
With remarkably little comment, the Internet Watch Foundation reversed its block on the Wikipedia page for the Scorpions' Virgin Killer album last...
Ben Ali's middle aged rent-a-mob roar into action again
There was a curious coda to the Tunisian government’s attempt to sabotage a debate on the parlous state of free expression in Tunisia, which tail-ended a conclave of journalists and publishers in Beirut at the weekend.
The importance of universality
This article was first published on Comment is Free On 13 December, 1948, Frederic Warburg typed up his comments on the manuscript of George...
Tunisian writers prevented from travelling
Index on Censorship Associate Editor Rohan Jayasekera this week travelled to the Arab Free Press Forum in Beirut, where he had hoped to meet, among...
Kenan Malik on race and Rushdie
Index on Censorship contributor Kenan Malik was a guest on the Little Atoms radio show last Friday. You can listen to the interview here.
'Without free speech you cannot claim or protect your other rights'
So says AC Grayling over at Comment is Free. Professor Grayling, normally known as a quite strident critic of religion, points out that Articles 18...
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You have got to be kidding
'An appeal judge in Australia has ruled that an animation depicting well-known cartoon characters engaging in sexual acts is child pornography. The...
Robert Chandler on a history lesson in intimidation tactics
Russian collective memory of the various catastrophes to which the country has been subjected during the last 100 years has long been extremely...