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...
Mapping Media Freedom verifies 571 threats to press freedom in first half of 2017
Index on Censorship’s database tracking violations of press freedom recorded 571 verified threats and limitations to media freedom in first half of 2017.
Free to air: Radio reborn
Join Index on Censorship magazine for the launch of the autumn 2017 celebrating all things radio.
Bourse Index on Censorship pour la liberté d’expression 2018
Index on Censorship ouvre les nominations à sa bourse pour la liberté d’expression 2018
Radio is back and that’s good for freedom of expression
The retro medium of radio is back, as we explore in the autumn issue of Index on Censorship magazine 2017, which is excellent news for the delivery of well, news.
Podcast: Radio’s an old medium new again
The autumn 2017 Index on Censorship magazine podcast features interviews with Ida Jooste, Peter Kettler and Joe Hynek on radio stations.
