Leading cultural figures question if we are self-censors in today’s artistic landscape.
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Index on Censorship
Europe: Is the censorship machine coming? Plus good LGBTQI+ news in Poland (IFEX, 4 July 2018)
On 20 June, the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament voted in favour of an extremely controversial copyright directive proposed by the European Commission. While promoted as protecting the work done by the creative industry, several...
Banned drill videos have been reposted to Pornhub (Crack, 2 July 2018)
In recent news, drill music has been accused of inciting violence, with The Metropolitan Police claiming that they’re responsible for rising levels of knife crime and gang warfare in London. As part of the government crackdown on the genre, in May,...
Platform uses crowdsourcing to fund journalism where press freedom is weak (CJR, 2 July 2018)
Wendy Funes was poring over judicial records when she discovered that the remains of human fetuses and newborns had been found in an indigenous area of her native Honduras. The journalist, who was reporting on another story at the time, requested...
Belarus Free Theatre students arrested over LGBTQ+ art installation
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Three student activists from Belarus Free Theatre’s Studio Fortinbras school, along with Belapan journalist Andrew Shavlygo, were arrested in Minsk on 28 June after the staging of an artistic stunt as part of a...
Counter-terror plans threaten investigative journalism and research
Plans to introduce new counter-terror laws risk stifling legal freedom of expression in the UK and could stop journalists and academics from carrying out much-needed investigations into extremist and other groups with possible prison sentences for investigating stories rising to 15 years
Maryland shooting: Index condemns the killing of five media workers
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Index on Censorship condemns the killing of five people at the offices of a local newspaper in Maryland, United States. A gunman opened fire on staff at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis on Thursday. “Local...
Index on Censorship submission on the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill 2018
Index is concerned that clauses of the UK’s Counter-Terrrorism and Border Security bill will diminish those rights and freedoms. It submitted this paper to parliament to ask it to consider changes to the proposed bill.
The actions of the Russian Federation are jeopardising online freedoms everywhere
Index on Censorship joins 52 other international organisations to warn that the Russian Federation is pursuing policies that are significantly and rapidly encroaching online freedoms.
Freedom of expression includes right to hold positions of different persuasions
Pressuring artists to renounce support for political causes as a prerequisite for being allowed to perform at events is fundamentally incompatible with artistic freedom and freedom of expression.
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