After her web-savvy talk of ‘necessary hashtags’ and a ‘back door’ to WhatsApp messages, Home Secretary Amber Rudd has come under fire over a ‘rushed-through’ consultation on changes to government spying powers. Read the full article
Index on Censorship joins with the Civic Solidarity Platform to condemn Belarus’ crackdown on peaceful protesters.
The mother of Özkan Mayda, a Turkish photojournalist for the Zaman daily, shares her son’s story.
Encrypted communication tools are used by investigative journalists and reporters under fire, as well as businesses and governments, to have safe conversations and to report on difficult and often dangerous situations. Attempts by the UK government...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Index on Censorship condemns the continued crackdown on protesters in Europe's last dictatorship. Belarusian authorities detained about 400 people over the weekend as Freedom Day demonstrations against the...
International freedom of speech campaigners have penned an appeal to Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev to guarantee the safety of jailed journalist Zhanbolat Mamay and to ensure an impartial investigation into his case. Read the full...
Organisations have written to the president of Belarus to demand an end to recent wave of detentions of journalists, activists and opposition figures.
V začetku meseca je na čelo Slovenskega centra Pen stopila Ifigenija Simonović. Članica Pena je že od leta 2006, za seboj ima tudi dva mandata sekretarke. V Penu si želi več mladih in politično nevtralnih posameznikov. Ne želi biti predsednica Pena...
Bahrain's decision to file charges against Ebrahim Sharif underscores the country's tactical use of judicial harassment to suppress freedom of speech. Ebrahim Sharif, the former secretary-general of the secular opposition group National Democratic...
Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, who died on 17 April, wrote this piece on the evolution of journalism for Index on Censorship magazine in 1997.
Using the prism of Shakespeare, this event explores how the arts allow for greater freedom of speech in our societies in the UK and US today
Beyond the Script, part of the BBC Arabic Festival, invites speakers to question what we cannot talk about.