04 Sep 18 | Magazine, Magazine Editions, Volume 47.03 Autumn 2018
Author
Ian Rankin is an award-winning Scottish crime writer, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels.
Poet
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a British-Iranian woman currently incarcerated in Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran.
Writer and professor
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is a bestselling Kenyan writer, academic and former political prisoner.
04 Sep 18 | Campaigns -- Featured, Statements
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Index on Censorship CEO Jodie Ginsberg tweets her reaction to the announcement that Steve Bannon has been disinvited from a New Yorker event after protests about his inclusion.
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02 Aug 18 | Events
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”65502″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][vc_column_text]Is free speech a way to promote unheard and under-represented voices and perspectives, or is it a tool wielded by extremists and supremacists? Join activist, educator and filmmaker Toyin Agbetu, photographer and writer Courtney Hamilton, journalist Kiri Kankwhende, Buzzfeed News Editor Elizabeth Pears, activist and charity director Ethel Tambudzai, and filmmaker Dionne Walker as they present various positions in this lively discussion tackling taboos, censorship and some of the thorny, nuanced issues surrounding free speech, moderated by Kunle Olulode, director of Voice4Change. There will be a bar and the opportunity for all to join the discussion. Queensberry Rules apply![/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]In Partnership With[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”101939″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=freespeechpunchup&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
When: Thursday 06 September 2018 19:00
Where: Blue Room, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank London SE1 8XT (Directions)
Tickets: Free. Registration required via BFI
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24 Jan 18 | Events
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Both before and after the state of emergency that followed the botched coup in 2016, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has shown increasing authoritarian tendencies, rolling back an essentially weak democracy. Now a truly authoritarian regime is in place and instigates multiple attacks against fundamental rights and democratic institutions, such as arbitrary arrests and prosecutions of critical voices, extensive use of emergency decrees, massive purges of the state institutions and the witch hunt against the Academics for Peace, signatories of the Peace petition. As it is generally the case, free speech and academic freedom have been major casualties of this authoritarian drift. Gathering academics, lawyers and human rights defenders, this panel will offer a critical insight into current legal and political developments in Turkey and discuss the way forward in the defence of freedom of expression and academic freedom in the country.
Panel 1 – 14.30 – 16.00 Free Speech under Threat in Turkey: A Legal Approach
Chair: Noémi Lévy-Aksu (Birkbeck College)
Ayse Bingöl (Media Legal Defence): The criminalisation of speech under state of emergency regime.
Bill Bowring (Birkbeck College, Professor of Law): Recent Strasbourg case law on freedom of expression in Turkey.
Oya Aydın (Lawyer): What are the Academics for Peace accused of?
Panel 2 – 16.15 – 17.30 Trial Observation, Legal Intervention and Advocacy
Chair: Mehmet Uğur (University of Greenwich)
Georgia Nash (Article 19)
Sarah Clarke (Pen International)
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When: Tuesday 30 January 2018, 2:30-5:30pm
Where: Birkbeck College, London (Map)
Tickets: Free. Register here
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