We ask French authorities to reverse this decision and allow Murad, an Index fellow, to study
Index on Censorship calls on French authorities to reverse decision on visa for artist
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This week at Index: #WeStandWithLyra: The loss of such promise is heartbreaking
Index calls on the UK authorities to bring those responsible to justice.
Permissão para se expressar (Crusoe, 26 April 2019)
Jodie Ginsberg, diretora da Index of Censorship, que monitora casos de censura pelo mundo, teme que estejamos caminhando para uma situação em que artistas e jornalistas terão de pedir autorização para trabalhar. Read the full article.
Index condemns the killing of Lyra McKee and calls on European governments to do more to ensure the safety of journalists
Index condemns the killing in the strongest possible terms and calls on the UK authorities to bring those responsible to justice and on European governments to do more to ensure the safety of journalists.
Index urges UK government to rethink proposals for online harms regulation over risks to media freedom
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Index on Censorship has filed an official alert with the Council of Europe about risks to media freedom in proposals in the government’s recently released online harms white paper. The white paper has raised...
Index on Censorship calls for the immediate release of Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Index on Censorship calls for the immediate release of Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, a member of the 2018 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award-winning Museum of Dissidence. This is the...
Painting with honey, fruits and blood (New Internationalist, 13 April 2019)
Alessio Perrone talks to a Kurdish artist and journalist who has taken on the Turkish government from behind bars. Read the full article.
Pen International and ARC join Index on Censorship in show of solidarity with Cuba’s independent artists
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Index on Censorship, Pen International and Artists at Risk Connection of Pen America stand in solidarity with independent Cuban artists as the 13th Havana Biennial, which begins in the Cuban capital on 12 April...
This week at Index: 2019 Freedom of Expression Awards roundup
“These winners deserve global recognition for their amazing work.”
Xinran, Karoline Kan and Rachael Jolley on China 30 years after Tiananmen at the Hay Festival
Join Chinese authors Xinran and Karoline Kan for a discussion at the Hay Festival moderated by Index on Censorship magazine editor Rachael Jolley to explore some of today’s most pressing issues in China past and present.
This approach to tackling online harms may threaten a free and open internet (Big Issue, 8 April 2019)
Today saw the release of the government’s Online Harms White Paper, a publication spearheaded by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Jeremy Wright, and the Home Secretary, Sajid Javid. Read the full article
iPlod: Sajid Javid’s new internet rules will have a chilling effect on free speech (Spectator, 13 April 2019)
Monday wasn’t the best day for the government to launch Online Harms, its white paper on internet regulation. As Sajid Javid was proudly proclaiming that Britain would have the toughest internet laws in the world, it emerged that a British woman...