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Climate of fear: The silencing of the planet’s indigenous peoples

29 Sep 2021 | Magazine, Magazine Editions, Volume 50.03 Autumn 2021

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Dissident

John Sweeney

Journalist

John Sweeney is a writer and journalist who has investigated Scientology and Russian interference in the US elections. He is the host of the Hunting Ghislaine podcast.

Kelly Duda

Activist and producer

Kelly Duda is an activist and producer and director of the documentary Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal.

Whistleblowers: The lifeblood of democracy

26 Jul 2021 | Magazine, Magazine Editions, Volume 50.02 Summer 2021

Index’s new issue of the magazine looks at the importance of whistleblowers in upholding our democracies.

Featured are stories such as the case of Reality Winner, written by her sister Brittany. Despite being released from prison, the former intelligence analyst is still unable to speak out after she revealed documents that showed attempted Russian interference in US elections.

Playwright Tom Stoppard speaks to Sarah Sands about his life and new play title ‘Leopoldstatd’ and, 50 years on from the Pentagon Papers, the “original whistleblower” Daniel Ellsberg speaks to Index .

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Daniel Ellsberg

Nerma Jelacic

Sir Tom Stoppard

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IN THIS ISSUE

Why journalists need emergency safe havens

by Rachael Jolley | 06 Aug 21 | Canada, Eritrea, Hong Kong, Netherlands, News and features, Philippines, Syria, Volume 50.02 Summer 2021, Volume 50.02 Summer 2021 Extras | 0 Comments

Journalists tell Index how a new type of visa is vital to protect lives and stop media censorship. Rachael Jolley reports

Spinning bomb: Fighting the disinformation war

by Nerma Jelacic | 04 Aug 21 | Bosnia, News and features, Russia, Serbia, Syria, Volume 50.02 Summer 2021, Volume 50.02 Summer 2021 Extras | 3 Comments

Nerma Jelacic argues revisionists are manipulating free speech defenders

Speaking for my silenced sister Reality Winner

by Brittany Winner | 03 Aug 21 | Magazine, News and features, United States, Volume 50.02 Summer 2021, Volume 50.02 Summer 2021 Extras | 0 Comments

Winner, a US Air Force veteran, has just been released after being imprisoned for exposing secret papers about Russian interference in the US elections

Daniel Ellsberg: The original whistleblower

by Mark Stimpson | 27 Jul 21 | Magazine, United States, Vietnam, Volume 50.02 Summer 2021, Volume 50.02 Summer 2021 Extras | 0 Comments

The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, which revealed the extent of US involvement in Vietnam during five presidencies , speaks to Index

Whistleblowers: The lifeblood of democracy

by Index on Censorship | 26 Jul 21 | Magazine, Magazine Editions, Volume 50.02 Summer 2021 | 0 Comments

Volume 50.02 Summer 2021

Are we becoming Hungary-lite?

by Jolyon Rubinstein | 26 Jul 21 | News and features, United Kingdom, Volume 50.02 Summer 2021, Volume 50.02 Summer 2021 Extras | 0 Comments

Jolyon Rubinstein fears a British legislative agenda that could stifle protest, satire and the very foundations of democracy

Contents – Whistleblowers: the lifeblood of democracy

by Index on Censorship | 26 Jul 21 | Africa, Bosnia, Burma, China, Europe and Central Asia, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Magazine, Magazine Contents, Slapps, Volume 50.02 Summer 2021, Volume 50.02 Summer 2021 Extras | 0 Comments

Index's new issue of the magazine looks at the importance of whistleblowers in upholding our democracies. Featured are stories such as the case of Reality Winner, written by her sister Brittany. Despite being released from prison, the former intelligence analyst is...

China: A century of silencing dissent

28 Apr 2021 | Magazine, Magazine Editions, Volume 50.01 Spring 2021

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Ma Jian

Author

Ma Jian is an award-winning Chinese writer. His latest novel is China Dream. His work is banned in China

Gelareh Sheibani

Singer

Gelareh Sheibani was born in Iran and took keyboard lessons as a youngter. She found a passion for singing in her teenage years but solo singing in the country was not permitted. After the release of the video for her song Nagoo Tanhaei and the follow-up she was arrested and prosecuted. She later left the country and now lives in Turkey

Sarah Sands

Journalist

Sarah Sands is Chair of the Gender Equality Advisory Council for G7 and a board member of Index on Censorship. Sands was the former editor of BBC’s Today programme

Masked by Covid

14 Dec 2020 | Magazine, Magazine Editions, Volume 49.04 Winter 2020

FEATURING

Zahra Hankir

Journalist

Zahra Hankir is a Lebanese journalist. She is editor Our Women on the Ground and was formerly at Bloomberg. She lives between Beirut, London and New York

Bianca Jagger

Campaigner

Bianca Jagger is president and chief executive of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation. She is a prominent voice in the human rights field. She is from Nicaragua

John Gray

Philosopher

John Gray is an English political philosopher. He is the author of Mill on Liberty: A Defence and Two Faces of Liberalism

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