Pushkin Club, Rights in Russia and Index on Censorship are proud to invite you to this evening in conversation with Anastasia Zotova.
Anastasia Zotova in conversation at Pushkin House
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Index on Censorship
Turkey: Freedom of the arts, archives and erasure
Erdogan’s crackdown on freedom of expression follows a familiar pattern.
Protest and prison in Russia: The case of Ildar Dadin
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="89311" img_size="full"][vc_column_text] Ildar Dadin is a Russian human rights activist who was the first, and remains the only, person to be convicted under a notorious 2014 public assembly law aimed at...
Nur’s detention on Index on Censorship (Yeniaysa)
The London-based freedom of expression organization Index on Censorship featured a portrait of Nur Ener, the editor of New Asia Newspaper's detainee since early March. Read the full article
Bahrain: Global leaders must speak out against human rights abuses
Index on Censorship is deeply concerned about the deteriorating conditions for freedom of expression and human rights in Bahrain.
Turkey, free speech and the referendum
Join us for a discussion to analyse the result of the referendum on Turkey’s domestic and foreign policies and freedom of expression in particular.
Eric Gill: can we separate the artist from the abuser? (The Guardian)
Eric Gill was one of the great British artists of the 20th century – and a sexual abuser of his own daughters. A new exhibition at Ditchling asks: how far should an artist’s life affect our judgment of their work? Read the full article
Universities should be environments of robust debate, not ‘safe spaces’ (THE)
Trigger warnings, “safe spaces” and “no platforming” have all made headlines recently as signs of the deterioration of free speech on campuses in the US. What rarely makes news, though, is another troubling aspect of censorship: so-called bias...
Anti-occupation group ‘Breaking the Silence’ in London next week (Jewish News)
Representatives from Israeli veterans’ group Breaking the Silence will be in London next week hoping to win a highly prestigious Index of Censorship Freedom of Expression Award. Read the full article
Vicky Bowman, the diplomat who caught the Burma bug (Mizzima)
As a British diplomat fresh in the country in 1990, Vicky Bowman dove enthusiastically into Burmese culture, mastering the language and making friends among the dissidents that operated, surreptitiously, in Yangon’s arts and literary scene—at a...
Freedom of Expression Awards Fellowship: Supporting efforts to defeat censorship
The Freedom of Expression Awards Fellowship programme offers direct support to groups and individuals striving to defeat censorship globally.
The big squeeze
The spring 2017 issue of Index on Censorship magazine looks at how pressures on free speech are currently coming from many different angles, not just one. Don’t miss our special feature on how to spot fake news, articles from former BBC World Service director Richard Sambrook and former UK attorney general Dominic Grieve, an exclusive interview with the Spanish puppeteer arrested last year, and fiction from award-winning writer Karim Miské.