Shazia Mirza, host of the Freedom of Expression Awards 2016, talks to fellow comedian and award nominee Sakdiyah Ma’ruf
Comedy and self-censorship: Shazia Mirza interviews Sakdiyah Ma’ruf
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Quiz: Are you a Shakespeare expert?
How well do you know Shakespeare?
12 April: Zaina Erhaim on Syria’s Rebellious Women
Join us at the Frontline Club for a film screening and discussion with Zaina Erhaim, a Syrian journalist shortlisted for the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards 2016.
Azeri writer Akram Aylisli releases speech he was due to give at Italian festival
The Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli, who has written about massacres of Armenians, was prevented from travelling to an Italian literary festival last week
Azerbaijan: Persecuted writer Akram Aylisli faces charges of “hooliganism”
Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli discusses his detention at Baku’s airport
Ben Jennings: Juxtaposing traditional Shakespearean imagery with something more modern
The award-winning cartoonist discusses his design of the latest Index on Censorship magazine cover on the 400th anniversary of Willian Shakespeare’s death
Peter Kellner: Which human rights matter most?
Peter Kellner is president of YouGov and a contributor to Index on Censorship magazine. Kellner discusses the results of a YouGov survey about rights across seven European democracies and the United States.
Azerbaijan: Human rights lawyer released
Index on Censorship welcomes the release of Intigam Aliyev, a human rights defender and a lawyer who specialised in defending the rights of Azerbaijani citizens before the European Court of Human Rights.
Angola: Index condemns jailing of 17 activists for anti-government “rebellion”
Index is appalled at the sentencing of Angolan activists whose “crime” was taking part in a reading group discussing ideas of democracy.
Turkey should drop criminal charges against journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül
Leading international free expression and press freedom groups condemn politically motivated trial
Turkey: Media freedom in crisis
The increasingly autocratic government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey, has clamped down on press freedom and opposing political viewpoints
Campaigning 2016
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The 2016 Freedom of Expression Campaigning Award-winner Bolo Bhi are a digital campaigning group who have orchestrated an impressive ongoing fight against attempts to censor the internet in Pakistan. The all-women...