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CATEGORY: Awards
#IndexAwards2016 Fellowship: We all have to act but we prefer peaceful acts
Following the Freedom of Expression Awards on 13 April, Index on Censorship magazine editor Rachael Jolley caught up with the fellowship
Bolo Bhi: Pakistan’s cyber crimes bill needs major changes
The cyber crimes bill passed by Pakistan’s lower legislative chamber is unacceptable and needs major changes, Bolo Bhi told Index on Censorship.
Untitled, @MuradSubay, 14/4/16
“I invite people like this: I just say – you paint now.” That’s how it works with artist Murad Subay.
Smockey: “The people in Europe don’t know what the governments in Africa do.”
Burkinabe rapper and activist Smockey officially becomes the inaugural Music in Exile Fellow
Jodie Ginsberg: “Free expression needs defenders”
In the very first edition of Index on Censorship magazine – published in 1972 – the then editor Michael Scammell wrote that a definite need existed for such an organisation
Zaina Erhaim: Syria’s Rebellious Women
A series of short documentaries directed by 2016 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards finalist Zaina Erhaim were screened at the Frontline Club in London last night. Syria’s Rebellious Women was filmed by the Syrian journalist over an...
Zaina Erhaim: “I want to give this award to the Syrians who are being terrorised”
While journalists and citizens fled, Syrian-native Zaina Erhaim returned to her war-ravaged country and the city of Aleppo in 2013 to ensure those remaining were not forgotten. She is now one of the few female journalists braving the twin threat of...
Bolo Bhi: “What’s important is the process, and that we keep at it”
Bolo Bhi are a digital campaigning group who have orchestrated an impressive ongoing fight against attempts to censor the internet in Pakistan. The all-women management team have launched internet freedom programmes, published research papers,...
GreatFire: “Technology has been used to censor online speech — and to circumvent this censorship”
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales read anonymous collective GreatFire's acceptance speech. We are honoured to have been chosen as the winner of Index’s 2016 digital activism award. We’d like to take this opportunity to highlight the incredible and...
The Freedom of Expression Awards and Fellowship is a key Index on Censorship programme designed to highlight and amplify the work of some of the world’s most courageous defenders of freedom of expression. Previous winners include Journalist Fergal Keane, novelist Ma Jian, lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, activist Malala Yousafzai, cartoonist Ali Ferzat, journalists Anna Politkovskaya and Fergal Keane, and Bahrain Center for Human Rights. Learn more.