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In conversation with Timothy Garton Ash: A blueprint for freer speech

 The professor of European Studies at Oxford University talks to Index on Censorship about his new book Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World
2016-06-14

Free Speech Bites: Timothy Garton Ash on global free speech standards

 Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies at Oxford University, and a noted author and commentator. Here he tells Nigel Warburton about his Free Speech Debate project, a forum for discussing global free speech standards in the digital age Download the mp3 here
2013-02-01

Lessons from a revolution

 Timothy Garton Ash looks back at the momentous events of 1989 and asks if it’s time to take to the barricades again
2009-09-18

#IndexAwards2019: Index announces Freedom of Expression Awards winners

 A Kurdish artist imprisoned for her paintings of the destruction of a town in Turkey's Kurdish region and a worldwide network monitoring threats and abuses against editorial cartoonists around the world are among the winners of the 2019 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards.
2019-04-04

International community rallies in support of Hungary’s Central European University

 As a new law passed by Hungarian government threatens the existence of Central European University in Budapest, 70,000 people marched in protest
2017-04-25

Flemming Rose: Censorship and self-censorship in the 21st century

 Danish journalist Flemming Rose delivered a lecture on 9 March 2017 as part of Censorship Awareness Week at Wellesley College.
2017-03-15

29 June: Legal protections for journalists worldwide? (Partner event)

 Six months after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, journalists face more threats than ever before, from harassment to imprisonment to murder – since the beginning of the year, 50 journalists have been killed. While some countries, like Norway, have scrapped blasphemy laws to strongly assert freedom of speech, others such as the UK are […]
2015-06-04

13 Feb: The Content and Context of Charlie Hebdo – Protecting freedom of expression and combating “hate speech”

 The attack on Charlie Hebdo dramatically increased the pressure on freedom of speech in all of Europe. How do we respond to audiences who do not recognize satire as a legitimate form of free expression, without increasing this pressure?
2015-02-01

Poland: Dissident theatre director fired by city mayor

 Ewa Wojciak and The Theatre of the Eighth Day speak out against injustices. It's deplorable that they should be repressed by the authorities of their city, writes Index contributor Tomasz Kitlinski
2014-08-18

After the Wall: Index magazine launch at the Goethe Institut

 It was a full house at the Goethe Institut in west London on Thursday night as Index magazine launched its latest issue with a debate on freedom in Europe, 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Did things turned out as we expected?
2014-07-11

Jodie Ginsberg: The new dissidents

 In 1977, the Russian dissident Alexander Ginzburg -- whose detention and sentencing almost a decade earlier helped to spur the creation of Index on Censorship -- was again arrested by the Soviet authorities.
2014-07-11

10 July: Brick by brick – Freedom 25 years after the fall?

 Twenty five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in eastern Europe, join us on 10 July to ask whether any of us are truly freer now?
2014-06-13