The Crime and Courts Act 2013, as it stands, is a danger to a free press. Under the act, a publisher can be ordered to pay both sides’ costs in a dispute if the publisher is not a member of an approved regulator.
Index on Censorship believes that everyone has the right to express their opinion, no matter how vile or offensive those views, unless their words directly incite violence.
Introducing the theme of the current issue of Index on Censorship (UK), Rachael Jolley writes that anonymity 'protects from danger, and it allows those who wouldn't be able to speak or write to get the words out. ... From the early days of Index on...
We, the undersigned organisations, recognise that the Turkish government has the right and responsibility to investigate the violent events of the July 2016 coup attempt and to bring all those responsible to justice.
We, the undersigned organisations, write to you regarding the systematic targeting of journalists, human rights defenders and online activists by the Internal Security Service (ISS) in Oman.
The British government has been condemned by press freedom groups for seizing an award-winning Syrian journalist’s travel documents upon her arrival at London’s Heathrow airport. Read the full article
An award-winning Syrian journalist who had her passport confiscated in the UK at the request of the Syrian Government says she fears she may not be reunited with her family if the document is returned to Damascus. Read the full article
Killings, imprisonments and other methods to silence journalists happens all too often, in Europe as elsewhere in the world. In this editorial, the importance of being on the side of those who are threatened Read the full article
On Monday 10 October, Belarus Free Theatre hosted Freedom of Expression in Ukraine, an event at the House of Commons in solidarity with Oleg Sentsov
Free speech advocates have warned about new prosecuting guidelines which open the door to social media users being jailed for “offensive” and “sinister” posts. Experts from the Index on Censorship and English PEN both voiced unease that moves in...
Kaya Genç's Index on Censorship magazine piece runs in Fountain Ink. Artists in Turkey have been hiding their real identities with increasing frequency for more than a decade, creating innovative and subversive art works in the safety of anonymity....
Eurozine syndicates Andrey Arkhangelsky's Index on Censorship magazine piece. Ten years after the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, investigative journalism in Russia continues to be made impossible by the state. Having taken control of traditional...