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...
Index on Censorship has launched a campaign to raise £15,000 to help us document growing threats to media freedom.
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...
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 on Censorship welcomes the announcement that the government will not implement Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013.
The default position of politicians and prominent public figures under fire is to blame a free press. On the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht the Index on Censorship, which monitors attacks on world media, reiterates that freedom of expression is...
Index on Censorship welcomes the news that charges against cartoonist Nsé Ramón Esono Ebalé have been dropped.
Index on Censorship condemns the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak in Slovakia
The trial of an artist on dubious counterfeiting charges
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Marking the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Watford Palace Theatre's production of Arthur Miller's Broken Glass explores the relationship between Phillip and Sylvia Gellburg, a married couple living separate...
Index condemns the decision to sentence Bahraini human rights defender – and Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award winner – Nabeel Rajab to five years in prison.
THEATRE artist and political activist, Silvanos Mudzvova has been nominated for the 2018 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards Fellowship in the arts category, for his performances, that agitate for democracy and rights for the country’s...