Turkish authorities re-arrested the internationally known Turkish novelist Ahmet Altan just one week after his release from more than three years in detention. Index on Censorship and 24 other NGOs say that his re-arrest, on 12 November, was an...
Official police guidance on recording hate incidents against transgender people imposes a “substantial chilling effect” on freedom of expression, the high court has been told by lawyers representing a former officer.
The Conservative Party yesterday banned the Daily Mirror from travelling on the party’s battle bus.
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”.
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
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.
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
Thirty years ago this month, the world changed: a border that divided a city for 28 years was brought down.
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.
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
The International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists this November highlights urgency of justice for journalists amid high numbers of deaths
Index and partner organisations are calling on governments to end impunity for crimes against journalists