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Index welcomes ruling that police reaction to tweets was “disproportionate interference”
Index welcomes the judgment in the case of Harry Miller - a former police officer who was investigated over tweets about gender. In a judgment delivered at the High Court in London, Julian Knowles found that the police's actions - which included...
Essex Book Festival: The power of protest: Where should we draw the line?
Join Observer columnist Kenan Malik, legendary LGBT campaigner Peter Tatchell and artist Stella Odulami for a debate on whether we should stand up for the right to protest. Chaired by Index on Censorship editor-in-chief Rachael Jolley.
Shedding Skin
In September 2019, London-based photographer Yumna Al-Arashi announced that one of her photographs, showing women in a hammam, had been taken down by Instagram because, according to the platform, it fell foul of the community’s standards on adult...
الصحفيون السود في ظل نظام الفصل العنصري
“عندما أعود بذاكرتي إلى عام ١٩٨١، وهو العام الذي دخلت فيه ميدان الصحافة، فأنا أرى دائما أن قراري ذلك كان بمثابة “رغبة في الموت”، فما الذي جذبني إذن إلى هذا المجال الخطير؟”
Fighting for justice in Malta – a timeline of the past two years
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For those of you who are just catching up with the situation in Malta and the political upheaval, here's a summary of some of the events Index and other organisations have been involved in over the past two years...
Index calls on European Court of Human Rights to support Kurdish journalist
Global press freedom groups, including Index on Censorship, argue Turkey no longer offers domestic remedy A coalition of 10 international press freedom and journalism organisations has intervened at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)...