05 Dec 12 | Events
Date: Tues 15 January, 6-8pm
Venue: Seminar Hall, 1st floor, the India International Centre, Delhi
Tickets: Please contact [email protected]
Index is partnering with the Editors Guild of India and the India International Centre for a debate on the subject, ‘Is freedom of expression under threat in the digital age?’ Who, if anyone, can or should police the web? How do we protect freedom of expression online in the face of demands to respect religious, political and cultural sensititivies? How do we stop new technology turning the web into a snoopers’ paradise for police and governments?
Chaired by renowned journalist and editor TN Ninan, our panel will include Ajit Balakrishnan (founder and Chief Executive of rediff.com), Sunil Abraham (Executive Director of the Centre for Internet and Society), Kirsty Hughes (CEO of Index on Censorship), Lokman Tsui (Policy Advisor to Google, Asia Pacific) and Professor Timothy Garton Ash (Director of Free Speech Debate at Oxford University).
This is the first in a series of international events organised by Index on Censorship, designed to raise the issue of free expression in key countries around the world.
You can watch the debate in full here.
This event is made possible by the generous sponsorship of SAGE India. We are very grateful for their support.
17 Sep 09 | Uncategorized
Is it time for another revolution? Timothy Garton Ash poses a leading question as he revisits the momentous events of 1989 in the latest issue of Index on Censorship. Writers and journalists across eastern Europe join him in assessing the legacy, and put the media under scrutiny. Cristian Tudor Popescu charts the highs and lows for journalists in Romania; Jan Bubenik remembers the night he became a velvet revolutionary; novelist Ivan Klíma reconsiders his expectations and Maria Eismont addresses the decline of press freedom in Russia.
Also in this issue: award-winning journalist Lydia Cacho tells the remarkable story of how she survived an abduction and death threats; Brian Klug explores the Jewish tradition of dissent and Geoffrey Robertson dissects the threats to free speech in the UK.
01 Aug 09
TIME FOR A REVOLUTION?
DISPATCHES
IN THE BALANCE
Geoffrey Robertson: The new threats to free speech
TERROR ON THE HIGHWAY
Lydia Cacho: How one journalist faced down death threats
NO GREATER TYRANNY
Genaro David Gongora Pimental:Why the Supreme Court got it wrong
TIME FOR A REVOLUTION?
Timothy Garton Ash: Lessons from a revolution
THE VELVET REVOLUTIONARY
Jan Bubenik: Memories of a night that made history
TRIUMPH OF THE WEST
Ingo Schulze: West Germans haven’t won the argument
TABLE TALK
Konstanty Gebert: On censorship, identity and getting even
CHRONICLE OF DECLINE
Christian Tudor Popescu: On censorship, identity and getting even
KICKING THE HABIT
Ivan Klima: Expectations of a revolution
STRIPSEARCH
Martin Rowson
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Karol Jakubowicz: How free is the media in eastern Europe?
FREEDOM POSTPONED
Maria Eismont: The challenges facing the press in Russia
WEB CAPTIVES
Floriana Fossato: Online activism in Russia hasn’t lived up to its promise
AN ACCIDENTAL SERB
Vladimir Arsenijevic: An interview with the award-winning novelist
A TRADITION OF DISSENT
THE MEANING OF ZION
Brian Klug: Shattering taboos is part of the Jewish tradition
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29 Jul 11 | Uncategorized
Timothy Garton-Ash writing in today’s Guardian makes a characteristically robust defence of free speech in the wake of Anders Breivik’s massacre in Norway, in which he addresses the ever-present call for online censorship whenever an extremist is found to have been motivated, even in the slightest sense, by findings on the web. (more…)
