Index on Censorship is partnering with Google and Privacy International to produce the Big Tent. Join senior figures from the worlds of business, politics and not-for-profit to discuss some of the big issues facing the Internet and society.
This is an invitation only event. For enquiries please contact [email protected]
Index will be organising its first event in the United States this spring, with a panel discussion being put together in collaboration with Columbia University and OSI. The event is entitled “Life After WikiLeaks: Who won the information war?”, and it takes place at the Journalism School at Columbia University, New York, on Wednesday May 4, at 6.30pm.
A panel including lawyer Mark Stephens, Richard Cohen of the Washington Post and Russian investigative journalist and security expert Andrei Soldatov will debate the fallout from WikiLeaks for freedom of speech, national security and the media.
Has WikiLeaks expanded our view of how news should be gathered and who gets to publish it, or ushered in a new age of dangerous muckraking? Do governments have a right to keep certain secrets, or is radical transparency the only way to keep governments accountable? Whatever happens next for Julian Assange, an international panel debates how he has permanently altered the playing field — for better or worse — for whistleblowers, journalists, and government leaders.
The event is free to attend, so if you are in New York on that date and would like to join the audience for the debate, please email [email protected]
On April 19 and 20 TRIPWIRES youth programme goes public in a dynamic, devised performance putting freedom of expression and censorship centre stage. Using different art forms and performance styles the show presents young people’s ideas on where to draw the line on some of the most pressing issues of the day. Click here for more information about the programme. Please join us for a reception after the show on April 20 hosted by Index on Censorship trustee Katie King and Phakama trustee Gemma Emmanuel-Waterton.
Venue: Mile End Park Arts Pavilion, Mile End Park, Grove Road, E3 4QY (map)
Times: April 19 7.30; April 20 3pm and 7.30. Tickets are free but please RSVP to [email protected].
TRIPWIRES is a partnership between Index on Censorship and Phakama UK, youth arts company in residence at Queen Mary, University of London
An Istanbul court has ordered the seizure of all of investigative journalist Ahmet Sik’s work on his incomplete book The Army of the Imam. His manuscript explores the connection between the police and the group headed by Turkish Imam Fethullah Gülen. Sik was close to finishing the work when he was arrested in March. Gülen is now living in exile in the USA. It has been alleged that the book will appear online on 11 April.