The UK has overturned a decision to refuse visas to two award-winning Cuban artists who had been invited to take up a two-week artistic residency in Britain.
Index on Censorship condemns the sentence handed down to Amal Fathy – an Egyptian woman who made a video about her experience of sexual harassment.
Why are universities in America and increasingly in Britain introducing measures to protect students from speech and texts they might find harmful?
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, has today written to the UK government to express his concerns about the impacts of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill on media freedom, which Index on Censorship and others have criticised.
The UK has refused visas for a second time to two award-winning Cuban artists who had been invited to take up a two-week artistic residency.
Louis Blom-Cooper, who has died at the age of 92, was an outspoken barrister, journalist, campaigner and public servant with a powerful intellect, liberal beliefs and a clearly visible contrarian streak. Read the full article.
The UK has refused visas for a second time to two award-winning Cuban artists who had been invited to take up a two-week artistic residency.
Freedom of expression campaigners, human rights groups and legal experts are raising concerns that proposed new counter-terrorism legislation in the United Kingdom would restrict freedom of expression and limit access to information online.
Press freedom organisations have written to the Bulgarian prime minister to express their concern over the treatment of a team of journalists investigating corruption in Bulgaria.
Index on Censorship has filed an official notification with the Council of Europe raising concerns about the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill’s impacts on media freedom in the UK.
ALQST for Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, English PEN, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), Index on Censorship, and PEN International call on the authorities in Saudi Arabia to release Yemeni writer and online activist Marwan Al-Muraisy, who has been subject to enforced disappearance since June.
Turkish prosecutors listed articles from websites such as The Guardian newspaper and Foreign Policy magazine as evidence of what they said was terrorist propaganda in an indictment against a jailed Kurdish lawyer and academic, human rights group...