Burmese pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi marks her 65th birthday today, under house arrest in Rangoon. Here, we republish an article she wrote in honour of her father Aung San, which first appeared in the January 1992 edition of Index on Censorship magazine.
Burmese pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi marks her 65th birthday under house arrest today. Here, we republish an article she wrote in honour of her father Aung San, which first appeared in the January 1992 edition of Index on Censorship magazine.
Read "Freedom from fear" here
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Truth dies when you fire the fact-checkers
Experts who can spot the red flags and contextualise the information we receive aren’t free-speech enemies
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Defending the right to protest means defending it for everyone
We may find the al-Quds Day march this Sunday distasteful, but banning it risks opening the floodgates to more frequent deployment of “safety” concerns to silence dissent
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Women’s rights activists arrested on International Women’s Day in Pakistan
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