Religion and free speech: it’s complicated
For centuries, free speech and religion have been cast as opponents. Index looks at the complicated relationship between religion and free speech
Tags: Christianity,First Amendment,India,Innocence of Muslims,Ireland,Islam,jewel of medina,Jyllands-Posten,Maqbool Fida Husain,Mary Whitehouse,religion,religion and culture,religious freedom,Salman Rushdie,satanic verses
The practice of freedom
The fight for freedom begins with freedom of speech, says Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. This is one of a series of manifestos demanding a more outspoken world in the 40th anniversary issue of Index on Censorship
Index on Censorship’s response to the Leveson report
Index on Censorship opposes recommendations for the statutory underpinning of press regulation
Tags: freedom of expression,law,Leveson Inquiry,newspapers,Politics and society,press,press freedom,UK
Bahrain is Britain’s shame
Today at the Houses of Parliament, Maryam al-Khawaja asked MPs to put pressure on Bahrain to commit to reforms and free politcal prisoners, including her father and sister. Here, the prominent human rights defender denounces Britain’s indifference Read more »
Tags: arms sales,Authoritarian,Bahrain,Bahrain Center for Human Rights,human rights,Maryam al-Khawaja,United Kingdom
The modern Big Brothers
Mike Harris explains how modern authoritarian regimes censor their citizens
Tags: Authoritarian,censorship,China,impunity,Internet censorship,Iran,Michea,press freedom,totalitarian
Downloading evil
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Writing for Index on Censorship magazine in 2007, the late Stan Cohen argued that child pornography and jihadi violence were testing the limits of tolerance
Tags: Chris Langham,Digital,free expression,Index on Censorship Magazine,internet,pornography,Stanley Cohen,terrorism,Tolerance
What future for free speech in the new Egypt?
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As Egypt closes 2012 with the approval of a new constitution, Ashraf Khalil reflects on a tumultuous year, and looks ahead to an uncertain future
“Horrible disaster” brewing in Taiwanese media sector
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The $600m sale of Next Media, one of Taiwan’s most popular media companies, has raised the spectre of a media monopoly that could be disastrous for press freedom on the island. Ching-Yi Liu and Weiping Li report
