The Free Expression awards is one of our major fundraising events. This year’s ceremony will feature a charity auction, with money raised going towards Index’s work at home and abroad Lots include: See your name in Howard Jacobson’s next book This...
Judit Bayer: Amendments do not eliminate harmful effect of Hungarian media law
Judit Bayer: Amendments do not eliminate harmful effect of Hungarian media law
With the Obama administration failing to honour its commitment to openness, leaks are one of the few means of holding government to account, writes David L Sobel in the new issue of Index on Censorship magazine
Dear friends, Yesterday the UK Justice Secretary laid out his plans for the draft defamation bill in the House of Commons. You can read it here. The Deputy Prime Minister, a strong supporter, also sets out his vision for the bill here. The...
Rachel Ehernfeld’s case highlighted the problem of “libel tourism” in English courts. Emily Badger got her reaction to the government’s proposed reforms
Court’s decision is a boost for Malta’s anti-censorship campaign, reports Charles Young
Laura MacPhee Assange breaks his silence at the Cambridge Union
The Libel Reform Campaign welcomes the government’s draft defamation bill as a good step in the right direction – but Parliament needs to go further in key areas
Libel reform – a message from Index on Censorship Chair Jonathan Dimbleby
As digital technology continues to transform the culture of activism and access to information – from revolution in Egypt to reporting on the secret services in Russia --- Index on Censorship assesses the ways and means of using new media to get...
How technology continues to transform the culture of activism, but also how it’s not popular to view it more cautiously as past of a long game.
Nominees for this year’s awards, presented in association with SAGE, include Egyptian newspaper editor Ibrahim Eissa, British playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, campaigning Pakistani politician Sherry Rehman and artist MF Husain