The Global Voice of Free Expression
Jan 23, 2011 · Index on Censorship is the voice of free expression. We publish censored writers and artists, promote debate, monitor threats to freedom of speech.
Index on Censorship appoints Jemimah Steinfeld as its new Chief ...
Index on Censorship, a leading international organisation promoting freedom of expression, has today announced the appointment of its next Chief Executive Officer.
Awards 2024 campaigning winner Diala Ayesh - Index on Censorship
Today, Index on Censorship announces Palestinian lawyer and prison advocate, Diala Ayesh as one of two winners of the 2024 Freedom of Expression Awards in the Campaigning category. The Campaigning category honours activists and campaigners who have had a marked impact in fighting censorship and promoting freedom of expression.
The 2024 Freedom of Expression Awards - Index on Censorship
Nov 20, 2024 · Evgenia Kara-Murza Trustees award winner. Evgenia Kara-Murza is Advocacy Director of Free Russia Foundation, activist, translator and wife of political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza, twice-poisoned Russian opposition leader, imprisoned on 11 April 2022 for protesting Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Coldplay, Sting call for Toomaj Salehi's death penalty to be …
Sting, Margaret Atwood, Elif Shafak and Coldplay join more than 100 artists, musicians, writers and leading cultural figures to call for the immediate and unconditional release of Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi
Ten countries where people have been arrested over social media ...
Jan 23, 2015 · A former Miss Turkey was recently arrested for sharing a satirical poem criticising the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on her Instagram account.She is set to go on trial later this year. Turkey has a chequered relationship with social media, temporarily banning both Twitter and YouTube in the wake of the Gezi Park protests, in large part organised and reported through social media.
The deadly challenges of reporting on Sudan’s “forgotten war”
Described by The Economist as “The Forgotten War”, the current conflict in Sudan may have escaped the notice of the average news consumer. Beyond headlines of rushed evacuations shortly after the hostility erupted in April 2023 and mastheads warning of an “Afghanistan repeat”, the situation in the north-eastern African nation has rapidly receded from view.
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Index on Censorship publishes an award-winning quarterly magazine that has featured some of the world’s best-known writers. We publish original creative writing and articles about free expression from across the globe. Our website offers additional information to help people understand the current threats to free expression globally.
European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) concluding that excessive awards chill free expression.16 The ECtHR has remained neutral about the involvement of juries in defamation cases, deferring the question to policymakers.
The painful death of Syria’s independent media
Media freedom has been slowly dying in Syria since the Arab Spring, suffocated by a lack of regular funding and poor governance. The rise of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party and Hafez al-Assad’s coup in 1970 led to state dominance over all its institutions, resulting in a media monopoly that supports the regime.