Theatres creating potentially controversial work can now receive training on how to handle sensitive subjects, as part of a new scheme from the Index on Censorship. Read the full article
Survey: How free is our press?
Are you a working journalist? Do you want to see better protections and freedoms for reporters?
Index rejects UK committee’s recommendation to outsource censorship
Index on Censorship rejects many of the suggestions made in a report into intimidation of UK public officials by a committee tasked with examining standards in public life.
Impunity for murders of journalists discussed in Vienna and Paris (b92)
Hundreds of experts and many representatives of international organizations took part, including Veran Matic, president of the Serbian Commission Investigating Murders of Journalists. Read the full article
Winter magazine launch: Protest workshop
Welcome 2018 by celebrating the power of protest at the launch of the latest Index on Censorship magazine.
Winter magazine launch: What price protest?
Welcome 2018 by celebrating the power of protest at the launch of the latest Index on Censorship magazine.
Lawyers: Daphne Caruana Galizia murder investigation in flagrant breach of ECHR requirements
Doughty Street Chambers has surfaced concerns about the investigation being carried out into the death of Daphne Caruana Galizia, a journalist, writer and anti-corruption activist murdered on 16 October
Coalition calls on EU to address freedom of expression in Turkey
Index on Censorship has joined a group of international organisations to call on the EU to take action on Turkey’s freedom of expression record.
Join the youth advisory board
Index on Censorship is recruiting for its next youth advisory board, which will sit from January to June 2018.
Bahrain: Nabeel Rajab’s tweet trial brought forward, then adjourned to 7 December
The 19th hearing of the leading Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab was unexpectedly held earlier than the court had originally ruled.
What price protest?
The winter 2017 Index on Censorship magazine explores 1968 – the year the world took to the streets – to discover whether our rights to protest are endangered today. Micah White proposes a novel way for protest to remain relevant. Author and journalist Robert McCrum revisits the Prague Spring to ask whether it is still remembered. Award-winning author Ariel Dorfman’s new short story — Shakespeare, Cervantes and spies — has it all. Anuradha Roy writes that tired of being harassed and treated as second class citizens, Indian women are taking to the streets. Editorial: Poor excuses for not protecting protest
Montenegro: When investigative journalism ends up behind bars
In Montenegro – NATO member country and EU candidate – attacks against the press are numerous and a journalist may be imprisoned for his investigative work.
