Index on Censorship CEO Jodie Ginsberg will be delivering a lecture on how censorship stifles debate.
#BannedBooksWeek: Limerick Civic Trust
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#BannedBooksWeek: What happens when ideas are silenced?
Join Index on Censorship for Banned Books Week as we celebrate our freedom to read, write and explore what happens when ideas are censored.
#BannedBooksWeek: Censored at The Book Hive, Norwich
Co-authors of a new book – Censored – in conversation with deputy editor of Index on Censorship magazine, Jemimah Steinfeld.
Israeli move to silence Al Jazeera a clear violation of press freedom
Index on Censorship condemns the decision by the government of Israel to ban Al Jazeera from operating in the country.
Turkey must release French journalist Loup Bureau
Index on Censorship urges Turkish authorities to immediately release French journalist Loup Bureau and drop all charges against him.
Bahrain: UK silence on Nabeel Rajab “appalling”
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s silence on the sentencing of human rights figure Nabeel Rajab in Bahrain has been called “appalling” in a letter to the Foreign Secretary, signed by 13 rights groups & MPs on Sunday
#BannedBooksWeek: How far can you go in speaking the unspeakable?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What is the place of the satirist in our age of controversies? The irreverent cartoonist Martin Rowson, of The Guardian and Index on Censorship magazine, joins publisher Joanna Prior of Penguin Random House for...
#BannedBooksWeek: A full slate of events
Banned Books Week 2017 is being celebrated with multiple ways to get involved.
Bahrain: Security agency summons online activist who exposed torture in plea to king
The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy and Index on Censorship condemn Yusuf Al-Jamri’s torture, and the torture of all persons by Bahrain’s NSA.
Index urges Russian government to halt deportation of Uzbek journalist
Journalist Khudoberdi Nurmatov, who works for independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, is set to be deported back to Uzbekistan, where it is feared he will be tortured.
Journalism Advocates Join In Tracking Trump-Era Attacks On The Press (Huffington Post)
Jenni Monet, one of a half-dozen journalists arrested this year covering the Standing Rock pipeline protests in North Dakota, recalled being verbally abused by police during her 30-hour detention, including hours in a freezing garage. Monet’s...
One of Syria’s best-known democracy activists has been executed (Washington Post)
Most of the activists who embraced the calls for freedom that resonated across Syria in 2011 were imprisoned, killed or forced into exile before anyone even knew their names. One whose reputation had become known beyond Syria’s borders was Bassel...