Index on Censorship is sending political party UKIP a bundle of books, including The Handmaid's Tale and a copy of the Quran, in the hope it will forward them on to those of its members involved in Saturday's attack on Bookmarks bookshop. Read the...


Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill not fit for purpose
Index on Censorship believes that the UK’s Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill should go back to the drawing board.

Saudi Arabia must implement UPR recommendations protecting freedom of expression
NGOs around the world call on their governments to publicly engage with Saudi Arabia to call for the release of detained writers and activists, and to issue strong recommendations to end restrictions on the right to freedom of expression.

Speaking out: Voicing movements in the face of censorship
Join Index on Censorship, American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and SAGE Publishing for a conversation with authors about writing, activism and speaking out

The Age of Unreason: Index on Censorship autumn magazine launch
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="102490" img_size="full"][vc_column_text]Join BBC Radio 4’s FutureProofing series presenter Timandra Harkness and special guests Graham Lawton (New Scientist) and Keith Kahn-Harris (author of Denial: The...
Authors demand Bahraini king to ensure ‘rights’ for prisoner (Al Jazeera, 6 September 2018)
Margaret Atwood, Elif Shafak and Ali Smith are just two among a group of leading writers piling pressure on the Bahraini king to intervene in the case of a detained political leader who was stripped of the right to read in jail. Read the full article

Governments should not be policing thought
The Law Commission will review how sex and gender characteristics are treated within existing hate crime laws and whether new offences are needed.

Authors send letter to His Royal Highness Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Leading writers including Margaret Atwood, Elif Shafak and Claire Tomalin have signed an open letter to the king of Bahrain urging him to intervene in the case of a political prisoner being denied the right to read in jail.

NGOs call for full repeal of Egypt’s “cybercrime” law and block of dangerous law regulating media
Index on Censorship joins a coalition of some of the world’s leading human rights and digital rights organisations to call for full repeal of Egypt’s “cybercrime” law
We mustn’t let the news cycle forget the Reuters journalists locked up in Myanmar (New Statesman, 5 September 2018)
International publicity can curb day-to-day abuse by prison authorities and puts political pressure on the government to release those detained. Read the full article

Contents: The Age of Unreason
The autumn 2018 issue of Index on Censorship magazine looks at the ways in which we might be turning away from facts and science across the globe.

Podcast: The Age of Unreason
Are facts under attack? We explore this question in the Autumn issue of Index on Censorship magazine.