The Conservative Party yesterday banned the Daily Mirror from travelling on the party’s battle bus.
Tories ban the Mirror from Boris Johnson’s general election battle bus (The Mirror)
read more
Index on Censorship
Trans women aren’t women, Maya Forstater tells employment tribunal (The Times)
A tax avoidance researcher who claims that she lost a job at a think tank for tweeting her views on trans people told an employment tribunal yesterday that “there is one sex or the other”.
This Week at Index: Fears for freedom of the media move closer to home
Restrictions on the media were once something seen as a problem for other countries but now these concerns are front and centre in the UK, Index CEO Jodie Ginsberg said this week
Researcher defends tweets on trans rights at employment tribunal (The Guardian)
A researcher who lost her job at a charity after tweeting that transgender women cannot change their biological sex has said at an employment tribunal that she “does not harbour any ill-feeling” towards trans people.
Tax expert who lost her job for ‘transphobic’ tweet takes case to employment tribunal (The Telegraph)
A tax expert who lost her job for tweeting that transgender women are not women yesterday took her case to an employment tribunal arguing that her dismissal amounted to discrimination against her beliefs
This Week at Index: Looking back at the day the Berlin Wall fell
Thirty years ago this month, the world changed: a border that divided a city for 28 years was brought down.
UK arms fair organisers barred journalist over fears of negative coverage, emails reveal (Press Gazette)
A journalist was barred from a major UK arms fair because organisers believed he would “not write anything positive” about the event, according to emails he uncovered through a subject access request.
Free speech and human rights organisations call for Turkish novelist Ahmet Altan, Nazlı Ilıcak and other journalists to be released
Ahead of the second hearing in the retrial of Turkish novelist Ahmet Altan, Nazlı Ilıcak and four other journalists and media workers, free speech organisations call for all detained defendants to be released and for the charges to be dropped
This Week at Index: Crimes against journalists must be punished
The International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists this November highlights urgency of justice for journalists amid high numbers of deaths
Call to end impunity for those involved in journalists’ murders
Index and partner organisations are calling on governments to end impunity for crimes against journalists
Index deputy editor to stand for election as MP
Index on Censorship's deputy editor Sally Gimson is making headlines of her own after being selected as a Labour candidate in the General Election on December 12. Sally will be standing as a candidate to become MP of Bassetlaw, in Nottinghamshire,...
Index calls on European Court of Human Rights to support Kurdish journalist
Global press freedom groups, including Index on Censorship, argue Turkey no longer offers domestic remedy A coalition of 10 international press freedom and journalism organisations has intervened at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)...