We need to do more to ensure that police work with venues to promote freedom of expression, not stifle it
Index condemns removal of artwork from Passion for Freedom exhibition
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Index on Censorship
NGOs invite states to sign UN joint-statement on Bahrain
The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy alongside 16 NGOs including Index on Censorship today voiced our support for the UN joint-statement
Your lips are sealed
Two new elements in the government’s legislation programme are a real threat to free speech, campaigners tell Dominic Smith
Thoughts policed: Max Wind-Cowie
Have we created a media culture where politicians fear voicing an opinion that’s not the party line? Max Wind-Cowie reports
The politics of terror: Conor Gearty
In the drive to tackle extremism, debate is being undermined and fear is driving the agenda. Conor Gearty makes the case for common sense.
Future imperfect: Jason DaPonte
Should concerns about privacy after the NSA revelations change the way we use the web? Jason DaPonte asks the experts about state spying, corporate control and what we can do to protect ourselves
My book and the school library: Norma Klein
Norma Klein, the American writer of children’s books, describes how she successfully defended her Confessions of an Only Child before a school board meeting
Deliberately lewd: Erica Jong
Pornography is to art as prudery is to the censors
Don’t weaken the UK’s Freedom of Information Act
Index joins media and campaign groups to oppose government’s Freedom of Information review
Azerbaijan detains journalist Ahmed Mukhtar
Freelance journalist Ahmed Mukhtar was detained at 7pm Friday 18 September in Azerbaijan
Coalition calls for release of detained journalist
Index on Censorship condemns Azerbaijan’s pressure on independent media
Moving towards inequality: Jemimah Steinfeld and Hannah Leung
In China, social benefits are tied an antiquated system of household registration that restricts benefits to the place where people were born. As hundreds of millions leave the countryside to seek employment in the cities, they are left without official jobs, legal protection or school places for their children. Jemimah Steinfeld and Hannah Leung report