Sixteen press freedom groups have condemned the killing of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and demanded an immediate and independent investigation into her death. Read the full article
CHIEF executive of Index on Censorship, Jodie Ginsberg will deliver a talk at the Limerick Civic Trust’s Autumn Lecture Series to mark Banned Books Week – a global series of events celebrating the freedom to read. Read the full article
Last week, Azerbaijani queer rights activist Javid Nabiyev posted a video on Facebook, in which he revealed that a series of police raids disproportionately aimed at LGBTQ+ people had been carried out in Baku, the country’s capital, over a series...
As right-to-read celebration begins, campaigners says authors must resist pressure from ‘online mob’ to avoid controversial topics like sex and race. Read the full article
Consider suppressed books and what do you think of? Someone carefully measuring out the ingredients for a bomb in their mother’s cellar, poring over The Anarchist’s Cookbook? A 1980s Britain supposedly blissfully unaware of the revelations in Peter...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has barred an Al Jazeera journalist from a government seminar on press freedom, a month after he threatened to close down the Qatar-based news organisation. Read the full article
International human rights organizations called to stand in solidarity with prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab on Monday (September 11, 2017) at 10 AM in front of the Bahraini embassy in London, to show support for Rajab and for free...
The Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Index on Censorship organization campaigning for freedom of expression have criticized Estonia this week for refusal to give accreditation to three...
The Council of Europe, the OSCE and the Index on Censorship, an organization which campaigns for freedom of expression, have criticized Estonia this week for the country's refusal to accredit three Russian journalists for an EU ministerial meeting...
A recently censored image of a nipple has highlighted a well-known fact, namely that a male nipple is just a nipple, but a woman’s nipple is deviant. Stare directly at them and you shall turn to stone. Read the full article
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