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Inside Story: Index on ethnic cleansing in Burma

Index on Censorship’s Mike Harris joins Ghida Fakhry and guests on Al Jazeera’s Inside Story, to discuss whether a giving a peace prize to Burma’s president Thein Sein rewards the killings of Rohingya Muslims.

Index discusses hate speech at Cambridge Union Society annual debate

06 Dec 12 | News and features, Uncategorized

Index’s own Head of Advocacy Mike Harris discussed the issue of hate speech and free expression at Cambridge Union’s annual Free Speech debate on 29 November.

Also speaking were Cambridge Union President Austin Mahler and celebrated philosopy writer Nigel Warburton. You can listen to Nigel explore the concept of free expression with guests in our series of podcasts Free Speech Bites here.

Watch the full free speech debate below:

Index Interview: The salami slicing of free speech

17 Oct 12 | News and features, United Kingdom

Conservative MP Dominic Raab talks to Mike Harris about civil liberties, free speech and how he “wouldn’t lose any sleep” if the UK’s communications data bill were canned
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Communications Data Bill: Technology is making dystopia not just possible, but cheap

07 Aug 12 | News and features, United Kingdom

The boom in surveillance technology sales is chilling free speech. We need to wake up to this reality, says Mike Harris (more…)

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