Each year Index on Censorship honours activists who have been at the forefront of tackling censorship globally. Click hears from Jodie Ginsberg about some of nominees including creators of the Museum ofDissidence in Cuba. She is joined Guy Muyembe,...
NCAC joins PEN America and 31 other prominent arts organizations to jointly file a friend of the court brief in the case of State of Hawaii v. Trump, urging the Supreme Court to strike down the third version of the Trump travel ban issued on...
In extraordinary public appeal, Denver Post’s “News Matters” report on its own fate shows readers how far-away hedge fund investors demanding greater profits can decimate local information sources. Read the full article.
Bringing curbs against the press, which peers have tried to tag on to the Data Protection Bill, would have dire consequences for the Scottish newspaper industry, MPs have been told. Read the full article.
Seven years ago this month, human rights activists Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja was taken from his home in Bahrain, tortured, tried in a military court, and sentenced to life in prison for taking part in peaceful protests. He has undertaken a number of...
Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja is an internationally-known Bahraini-Danish human rights defender who is the founder and former President of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), established in 2002, and a Founding Director of the Gulf Centre for Human...
PEN America and 32 other prominent arts organizations have come together to jointly file a friend of the court brief in the case of State of Hawaii v. Trump, urging the Supreme Court to strike down the third iteration of the Trump travel ban...
As the promoter of the We are Funny Project, the biggest open mic comedy network in London, I have experienced a very rocky last few weeks, veering between depression and elation. Read the full article.
Seventeen international press freedom groups have called on Turkish authorities to immediately release 12 printing plant workers and staff arrested on March 28 at the office and printing plant of the Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper and an additional...
There were 1,089 verified reports of limitations to press freedom in Europe in 2017, with a majority of violations coming from official or governmental bodies, according to the Index on Censorship's Mapping Media Freedom platform. Read the full...
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