Let’s start small and then go big. This week the writer Lionel Shriver was turfed off the judging panel of a women’s short-story competition. The reason for her ejection was that she had written something disobliging for The Spectator magazine...
Writer and broadcaster Trevor Phillips named new chair of Index on Censorship board
Index on Censorship has named writer and broadcaster Trevor Phillips as its new chair. Phillips succeeds journalist David Aaronovitch whose five-year term ends in September.
Say no to Article 13’s censorship machine
From academics and journalists to parents uploading videos of their children, Article 13’s upload filter would impact professional and ordinary content creators alike.
Join the youth advisory board
Index on Censorship is recruiting for its next youth advisory board, which will sit from July to December 2018.
A Date To Forget: Doubling down on the Tiananmen taboo (China Channel, LARB, 8 June 2018)
Louisa Lim: To write my book The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited, I spent a lot of time in fast-food restaurants. Not because I like burgers, but because dissidents often favour the crush of diners and the buzz of conversation,...
First Amendment under threat?
Experts working on the security of journalists, press freedom and freedom of expression gather in London to discuss trends that are contributing to a decline in media freedom in the US, and what needs to happen to reverse the situation
Summer magazine launch: Trouble in paradise
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="100664" img_size="full"][vc_column_text]Celebrate the start of summer with cocktails and debate at Index on Censorship’s summer magazine launch. In the underground bar of Shoreditch’s quirkiest arts venue,...
Dear Andy Burnham, name a street in Manchester after Ahmed Mansoor
Andy Burnham Mayor of Greater Manchester Manchester, UK [email protected] 31 May 2018 Dear Mayor Burnham, The undersigned organisations are writing to you to request your support for the release of the award-winning Emirati...
Russian journalist stages death to catch potential killers
High profile Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko stages his own “murder”, but investigations into death of journalist Pavlo Sherbet must continue
Equatorial Guinea: Artist Ramón Esono Ebalé leaves country after prison release
The judge dismissed the case in February, but Esono Ebalé remained effectively trapped in the country. He was issued a passport on 23 May and left the country days later
Caruana Galizia’s Son: ‘We Are At War With The Government Over My Mother’s Murder’ (Lovin Malta, 29 May 2018)
One of the sons of assassinated journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia said it feels like his family is at war with the Maltese government over their quest to find out who murdered his mother. Read in full.
Abortion clinic buffer zones set ‘dangerous precedent’ for freedom of speech, campaigners say (The Telegraph, 28 May 2018)
Abortion clinic buffer zones set a “dangerous precedent” for freedom of speech, campaigners have warned as they bid to overturn them. Civil liberties groups have written to the seven councils who are currently considering public space protection...
