The new UK government’s plans to tackle extremism and introduce a British bill of rights, as outlined in the Queen’s Speech on 27 May, raise the stakes significantly for freedom of expression in the United Kingdom
Index is appalled to learn that a decision to pursue charges against Index award winning investigative journalist Rafael Marques de Morais is moving forward despite apparent agreement between the parties.
Charges against Angolan investigative journalist and Index award winner Rafael Marques de Morais have been dropped
Writer, campaigner and broadcaster Bidisha joins South African photographer and human rights campaigner Zanele Muholi in London to discuss the power of art in activism and the importance of visibility and representation in combating prejudice and human rights abuse.
A Supreme Court judgment today has overturned an injunction preventing publication of the musician James Rhodes’ memoir Instrumental.
Index on Censorship joins Article 19, English PEN, Media Legal Defence Initiative and PEN International in writing to the Malaysian prime minister calling for the charges against cartoonist, Zunar, to be dropped.
The decision by a Bahraini appeals court to uphold a six-month sentence against Nabeel Rajab is a sad example of how the country treats freedom of expression.
Index award winning investigative journalist Rafael Marques de Morais’s criminal defamation trial is set to resume today
The UK Home Secretary’s preview of a proposed new counter-extremism bill raises the stakes for freedom of expression in the United Kingdom. Index on Censorship is disturbed by the potential impact on free speech embedded in the proposals.
Index on Censorship condemns the brutal murder of Bangladeshi blogger Ananta Bijoy Das -- the third such attack since February. AFP reported that attackers wearing masks hacked atheist blogger Das to death with machetes. The murder follows that of...
Index on Censorship and a number of other organisations have signed a joint letter to Lord Sebastian Coe of the British Olympic Association, to highlight violations against freedom of expression and threats to human rights defenders in Azerbaijan ahead of the European Games
Index on Censorship is delighted to announce that its project to map media freedom in Europe has received renewed funding from the European Commission – one of just two projects selected