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.
Five long, shapeless tops; a pile of loose-fitting, dark-colored jeans; a knee-length coat; and a video camera. Those were the contents of my wardrobe for more than two years, when I lived in and reported on the rebel-held area of Aleppo, known as...
There were 2 incidents in Belarus in July 2019 recorded by Index’s monitoring project.
There were 5 incidents in Azerbaijan in July 2019 recorded by Index’s monitoring project.