28 Jun 2011 | Index Index, minipost
Radio presenter in Uganda, Philips Ogile, yesterday began a two-month community service sentence after he was convicted of privacy intrusion. In January 2007 Ogile took, and later published, a photograph of a woman stripped and searched by law enforcement officers. The woman was accused of stealing a mobile phone. Ogile was charged with three counts of indecent assault, defamation and indecently assaulting the modesty of a woman. The officer involved was charged with unlawful detention and fined 100, 000 Ugandan shillings (£25).
28 Jun 2011 | Events
Index on Censorship presents ‘Beyond Belief’, a half day conference on police, policy and freedom of expression in the arts.
Tuesday 5th July 9am – 1pm at Free Word Centre, London EC1R 3GA
Join us for a half day of high level debate on the challenges of policing artistic freedom of expression. Jude Kelly, artistic director of the South Bank Centre, will give a key note speech, followed by a landmark panel discussion ‘Policing challenging art’, chaired by Kenan Malik with
- Chief Superintendent Peter Terry of the Metropolitan Police
- Munira Mirza, Director of Arts and Culture for the Mayor of London
- Canon Giles Fraser of St Paul’s Cathedral
- David Lan, Artistic Director of the Young Vic
- Tamsin Allen, solicitor Bindmans LLP
The conference launches Index on Censorship’s case study on the production of Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s 2010 play ‘Behud (Beyond Belief)’ at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry and Soho Theatre London. We are delighted that Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti will also be speaking at the event. Following the panel discussion, we will be hosting facilitated breakout sessions during which all delegates will be able to contribute to the discussion.
Spaces are limited. Please click here to register.
28 Jun 2011 | Index Arts, Index Index, minipost
Uzbek journalists, Malohat Eshonqulova and Saodat Omonova, have been detained and fined 2.94 million soms (around £1000) for holding an unauthorized protest on Monday morning.
The two women, who have now begun a hunger strike, held up placards in front of the presidential palace in Tashkent which read “Dear Islam Karimov, please grant us an audience”.
The pair were arrested after around four hours of protesting on 27 June, a day officially marked by Uzbekistan as the “Day of Media Workers“. Eshonqulova and Omonova were fired from state television channel Yoshlar last December, three days after they staged protests against media censorship and are still fighting a court battle to appeal their dismissal.
28 Jun 2011 | Uncategorized
The US Supreme Court on Monday struck down a California law attempting to ban the sale of violent video games to children. The 7-2 decision was hailed by free-speech advocates and press organisations, many of whom argued in briefs before the court that such a law restricting the sale of certain content violated the Constitution. (more…)
