Lord Carlile told parliament he was ‘somewhat biased’ towards controversial anti-terror programme, undermining his position, rights groups say. Read the full article.
Penguin group rejects claim of censorship after halting publication of Simon Akam’s The Changing of the Guard. Read the full article.
The groups are urging the government to ensure that the review of Prevent is comprehensive and truly independent
A review of the controversial Prevent counter-extremism programme is at risk of becoming a “whitewash”, the government has been warned. Read the full article.
Fifteen international organisations have written to Amal Clooney to urge she pressure the UK to act on Bahrain’s human rights abuses.
This week at Index: CRNI continues to monitor the loss of cartoonists from media outlets; monthly media monitoring reports and Banned Books Week UK.
Index on Censorship strongly condemns a decision by a Turkish court to block the independent news outlet Bianet and over a hundred other sites, accounts and videos. The organisation calls for the order to be reversed.
It is 70 years since George Orwell published 1984. So how do our political and personal landscapes today compare to Orwell’s dystopia?
There were 9 incidents in Ukraine in July 2019 recorded by Index’s monitoring project.
Join us to celebrate the right to read at one or all of these upcoming events.
Index on Censorship and VINTAGE are coordinating a nationwide series of publication-day celebrations and midnight openings at independent bookshops across the UK as part of Banned Books Week UK to celebrate the publication of Margaret Atwood’s highly anticipated The Testaments (sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale) on 10 September.
There were 32 incidents in Russia in July 2019 recorded by Index’s monitoring project.