For centuries, free speech and religion have been cast as opponents. Index looks at the complicated relationship between religion and free speech
Religion and free speech: it’s complicated
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Index on Censorship
Yoani Sánchez: Living the life
In this Index on Censorship magazine interview from 2011, the celebrated Cuban blogger talks to Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson
Belarus media law offers no defence
Europe’s last dictatorship uses violence, repressive legislation and economic discrimination to silence independent journalists. Yanina Melnikava reports
Iran’s attacks on the BBC
Staff at the BBC’s Persian Service face satellite jamming as well as smear campaigns and intimidation, says World Service Director Peter Horrocks
Index on Censorship’s response to the Leveson report
The Leveson Report will become a benchmark for press regulation in modern democracies. Index has urged a serious, considered debate about Lord Justice Leveson’s recommendations rather than their full adoption. The free speech organisation opposes the statutory underpinning of press regulation as proposed by Lord Justice Leveson.
Free Speech Bites: Timothy Garton Ash on global free speech standards
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies at Oxford University, and a noted author and commentator. Here he tells Nigel Warburton about his Free Speech Debate project, a forum for discussing global free speech standards in the digital age...
Free Speech Bites: DJ Taylor on George Orwell
DJ Taylor is the author of Orwell: The Life, an award-winning biography of journalist and novelist George Orwell. he speaks to Nigel Warburton about Orwell's nuanced attitude to free speech and his encounters with censorship Download the mp3...
Digital Freedom
These are the nominees for the 2013 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Digital Arts Award
Arts
These are the nominees for the 2013 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Arts Award
Journalism
These are the nominees for the 2013 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Journalism Award
Chinese journalists back at work after “tacit agreement” with censors
After a week of protests and walkouts over a censored Near Year editorial, and rigorous calls for press freedom, journalists at China’s Southern Weekly have gone back to work. A normal edition of the paper was published last Thursday. Outrage over...
The mechanics of China’s internet censorship
Even rainstorms can be sensitive in China. The recent storm in Beijing which killed at least 77 people caused the censors to come out in force, with newspapers told to can coverage and online accounts of the deluge snipped. But with 500 million...