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Index on Censorship
Around Town: The Hackney Debate. Social Media – Blessing or Curse? (29 November)
Chaired by the BBC's George Alagiah, the Hackney Debates have proven a popular addition the London calendar, returning to St. Peter's Church for the fifth time. The theme this time is the impact of social media on society. Do services such as...
Around Town: London Crypto Festival (Digital Freedom) (30 November)
Freaked out by spiralling revelations of NSA surveillance? Worried that the spooks have subverted the internet at every level to make it a vast, multi-layered panopticon? Or simply wary of the way services like Facebook & Google can profile you...
Index awarded prestigious Kesten prize
Index on Censorship was in Darmstadt, Germany, last week to receive the prestigious Hermann Kesten literary prize from German PEN. The prize is given in honour of Hermann Kesten, the German novelist, who left Germany for Paris in 1933. From Paris,...
Doris Lessing: Books for the hungry
“The most popular book everywhere is George Orwell’s Animal Farm”, Lessing writes from Zimbabwe in 1999
Cycles of revolution: Doris Lessing in China
In 1993, the novelist, who died on Sunday, reported for Index from a changing China
2nd December – UK Premiere ‘Article 12’ & Q&A with Index CEO Kirsty Hughes
To mark Human Rights Day, the United Nations in partnership with DocHouse, present the UK Premiere of 'Article 12' - a thought-provoking exposé on our current obsession with voyeurism, surveillance technologies, power and control. Featuring...
PEN America survey: Mass surveillance causing self-censorship among writers
Sixty-six percent of American writers disapprove of their government’s collection of phone and internet data, according to a survey from the Pen American Center.
Miranda court challenge
Index on Censorship supports today’s court challenge to the use of counter-terrorism powers to detain David Miranda at Heathrow airport in August. Index is a member of a coalition of free speech and media organisations that has made a written...
French court orders Google to filter Mosley photos
In a defeat for Google, a French court has ordered the search engine to filter nine images of former Formula One chief Max Mosley, the company said today. Mosley was also awarded €1 in damages.
Azerbaijan moves to post-election crackdown
Police raids offices of independent watchdog that reported on irregularities surrounding the recent Azerbaijani election
Tadeusz Mazowiecki: “there is nothing real about ‘realpolitik'”
Poland’s first non-Communist premier died today. In 1995, he spoke to Index on Censorship magazine about his decision to resign as Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights in former Yugoslavia