As part of media freedom month. Jodie Ginsberg wrote to Index on Censorship supporters.
Death threats should not be the norm
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#IndexAwards2018: “How Do You Report From a Hostile Environment When That Environment is Home?”
The Freedom of Expression Awards Curtainraiser
Death threats should not be the norm
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="98546" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]UK-based freedom of expression organisation Index on Censorship recorded its 4,000th case of a media freedom violation in 42 countries around...
Equatorial Guinea: Artist freed from prison
An Equatorial Guinean court on March 7, 2018 released an artist imprisoned on dubious charges for nearly six months, 17 human rights groups said today
Breathing life into the books they banned and burned
JW3 and Index on Censorship are pleased to announce Uncensored: A Celebration of Banned Writing, a series of events that will explore censored work across the ages.
Faceless and post-show discussion on free speech
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="98305" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Faceless follows the unexpected twists and turns of Susie, a suburban Chicago teenager who lives her life on the internet. In Faceless, Susie...
17 NGOs call for EU action to protect journalists
A climate in which impunity prevails and in which journalists are only respected when they serve the interests of those in power, paves the way for violence.
Fundraising bid to map attacks against freedom of expression (Bookseller)
Index on Censorship is bidding to raise £15,000 by the end of this month to map attacks against freedom of expression and demand governments do more to stop them. The plea follows the death of journalist Jan Kuciak, and his partner Martina...
Don’t let media freedom die – we need it more than ever
Index on Censorship has launched a campaign to raise £15,000 to help us document growing threats to media freedom.
David Aaronovitch: Don’t let media freedom die – we need it more than ever
Last week, Jan Kuciak, a journalist investigating links between organised crime and politics, was shot dead - along with his fiancée. This happened not in a war zone, not in a dictatorship, but in Slovakia: an EU member state. When I became chair...
Forty-five years later, the censors are as busy as ever (Buenos Aires Times)
About this time in 1973, 45 years ago that is, I published my first article in the second issue of an obviously unknown London-based magazine, Index on Censorship. It had been launched in November 1972, to publish banned, imprisoned, silenced...
Index welcomes announcement on Section 40
Index on Censorship welcomes the announcement that the government will not implement Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013.