Following the execution on Saturday in Iran of Ruhollah Zam, an activist and journalist who had been accused of using a messaging app to stir up dissent, Index call on the UN Secretary-General to demand members respect the UN Declaration on Human Rights
Index has significant concerns about the UK government’s proposals for online harms and their unintended consequences on free speech
A look at what’s inside our Winter 2020 issue, which looks at the stories that should have received more attention were it not for Covid
Volume 49.03 Autumn 2020
Index and other press freedom organisations call for an end to litigation designed to silence valuable and necessary investigative journalism
Join us in sending messages of support to six human rights activists and journalists around the world who are #JailedNotForgotten
As 60 organisations come together to ask the EU to develop legislation to stop vexatious lawsuits, we publish journalists’ accounts of being slapped with legal action
Six journalists speak about the legal efforts to silence them over their reporting
The launch is part of the #StopSlapps campaign against the use of lawsuits to silence the media
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Ruth Smeeth, Index's CEO, explained her criticism of the proposed removal of the "dwelling" privacy exemption currently in UK law. The change would mean a legal grey area where people could theoretically be...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Index CEO Ruth Smeeth warned of new legislation in Scotland that would "govern what we say to each other over a cuppa". The new "hate crime bill" proposed in Scotland has been heavily criticised since its...
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