Index on Censorship joins call for Bahrain’s government to address denial of medical care to Hassan Mushaima
Bahrain must allow medical care for all prisoners of conscience
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Integrity 20: Inconvenient ideas and how to disagree
How do we re-learn how to listen with an open mind and make contributions with respect, logic, and clarity?
This week at Index: UN declares Nabeel Rajab’s imprisonment unlawful
From Bahrain to Equatorial Guinea to the UK, these are the issues that Index has been working on this week.
Index on Censorship at the Battle of Ideas
Join Index on Censorship CEO Jodie Ginsberg at the Battle of Ideas on 13-14 October at the Barbican Centre.
UN declares Nabeel Rajab’s imprisonment unlawful, warns arbitrary detention in Bahrain may amount to “crimes against humanity”
It finds that Rajab should never have been prosecuted and that Bahraini authorities employed “vague and overly broad” legal provisions to target him for his “political views and convictions”
Books from left-wing shop sent to UKIP’s Martin Costello (Swindon Advertiser, 12 August 2018)
Campaigners from Index on Censorship have sent books from left-wing bookshop Bookmarks to three UKIP members involved in a protest there at the weekend. Read the full article.
Globally renowned twenty-four organisations signed petition for releasing Shahidul Alam (Daily Star, 11 August 2018)
To convey the support for Shahidul Alam, the detained photojournalist and activist, Index on Censorship and twenty-three other globally renowned civil society organisations have signed a petition calling immediate unconditional release and dropping...
Bangladesh: Shahidul Alam should be released and the allegations against him dropped
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] On 6 August 2018, Bangladeshi photojournalist Shahidul Alam was arrested and detained for allegedly “making provocative comments”, and “giving false information” to media, contrary to the Information...
Beyond censorship: Power, silencing and resistance
Join a discussion of the ways in which dissenting voices are structurally silenced and the many ways of resistance
Comedy Unleashed
Join London’s free-thinking comedy club, Comedy Unleashed, for an evening of uncensored comedy feat.
Ukip members sent ‘mind-broadening’ reading after bookshop attack (Guardian, 9 August 2018)
Index on Censorship gives books promoting tolerance to two men suspended from party after attack on Bookmarks in London. Read the full article.
Bookmarks attackers sent books to help ‘broaden their minds’ (Bookseller, 9 August 2018)
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...