Blogger and human rights activist Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace has been in prison in Bahrain since 2010
#IndexAwards2016: Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace has not let prison silence him
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CATEGORY: Awards
Campaigning 2016
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The 2016 Freedom of Expression Campaigning Award-winner 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...
Digital Activism 2016
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Set up by anonymous individuals, GreatFire is at the forefront of the fight against China’s severe web censorship. Using a variety of tools, the organisation tracks China’s censorship infrastructure, hosts mirror...
Journalism 2016
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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...
Music in Exile 2016
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The inaugural Music in Exile fellow is Burkinabe rapper and producer Serge Martin Bambara aka Smockey. An icon of democracy in Burkina Faso, Smockey is an artist, music producer and political activist who fuses...
#IndexAwards2016: Murad Subay sheds light on human cost of Yemen’s war
In 2011, artist Murad Subay took to the streets of Yemen’s capital, Sana’a to protest the country’s dysfunctional economy and institutionalised corruption
#IndexAwards2016: Indonesian Sakdiyah Ma’ruf carves a name for herself in comedy
From a conservative Muslim community where expectations stretched only to marriage and children, Sakdiyah Ma’ruf has carved a name for herself in comedy
#IndexAwards2016: Good Chance Theatre gives refugees a place to be heard
Surrounded by a jungle of tents and mud, the Good Chance Theatre was set up last year by British playwrights Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson
Bassel Khartabil: Four years since arrest of Palestinian-Syrian online freedom activist
Four years have passed since Palestinian-Syrian software developer Bassel Khartabil (aka Bassel Safadi) was arrested in Damascus
#IndexAwards2016: Tania Bruguera’s #YoTambienExijo ignites a worldwide movement
The beginnings of the #YoTambienExijo movement were born on 17 December 2014, when President Obama announcement a landmark warming of the 53-year chill between the United States and Cuba
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.