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Index on Censorship
Forget the “wall”, what we really need to talk about is Mexico’s deadly environment for journalists
Mexico is among the world’s most dangerous places to be a journalist, with a record number of journalists being killed in Mexico this year.
Free speech advocate to mark Banned Books Week at Limerick event (Limerick Post)
CHIEF executive of Index on Censorship, Jodie Ginsberg will deliver a talk at the Limerick Civic Trust’s Autumn Lecture Series to mark Banned Books Week – a global series of events celebrating the freedom to read. Read the full article
Journalists targeted with threats of sexual violence
Journalists are increasingly subjected to online harassment, but when the journalist is a woman it quickly escalates into gender-based defamation and threats of sexual violence
#BannedBooksWeek: What happens when ideas are silenced?
Award-winning journalist David Aaronovitch was joined in conversation with Irish young adult author Claire Hennessy and Saqi Books publisher Lynn Gaspard.
LGBT people are being detained and beaten in Azerbaijan (Dazed)
Last week, Azerbaijani queer rights activist Javid Nabiyev posted a video on Facebook, in which he revealed that a series of police raids disproportionately aimed at LGBTQ+ people had been carried out in Baku, the country’s capital, over a series...
Conviction of Cage’s advocacy director an abuse of anti-terror legislation
The conviction of Muhammad Rabbani, director of advocacy group Cage, for refusing to divulge his phone PIN and passwords under anti-terror legislation is very concerning.
Banned Books Week: ‘In 2017, censorship comes from an outraged public’ (The Guardian)
As right-to-read celebration begins, campaigners says authors must resist pressure from ‘online mob’ to avoid controversial topics like sex and race. Read the full article
First Amendment protects right to #TakeTheKnee
President Donald Trump’s take on athletes who choose to kneel during the national anthem hows his disregard for the protections offered by the US Constitution’s First Amendment.
Banned Books Week: How censorship through the decades cracked down on literary sex…(Independent)
Consider suppressed books and what do you think of? Someone carefully measuring out the ingredients for a bomb in their mother’s cellar, poring over The Anarchist’s Cookbook? A 1980s Britain supposedly blissfully unaware of the revelations in Peter...
Syrian mother and daughter journalists murdered in Istanbul
The bodies of Syrian journalists Orouba Barakat and her daughter Halla Barakat were discovered in their apartment in Istanbul.
#BannedBooksWeek: Controversial speaker coming to campus? Webinar on disinvited speakers and academic freedom
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="95224" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Over the past few years, the news has been replete with stories about how authors, thought-leaders and others have become disinvited or pressured...