Tania Bruguera who was detained last week with fellow artists in Cuba for protesting against Decree 349, an artistic censorship law, has written an open letter
Index on Censorship joined others at the Tate Modern today in a show of solidarity with those artists arrested in Cuba for peacefully protesting Decree 349, a law that will severely limit artistic freedom in the country
The decree does not include anything new to the current practice of the Cuban government, but it does offer a legal cover to a reactionary, ancient and regressive practice
Eddy Munyaneza is an award-winning filmmaker who was forced into exile when he created documentaries about Burundi’s president Pierre Nkurunziza, who was running for a third term and the political crisis that followed.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Update: All arrested artists have now been released, although they remain under police surveillance. Cuba's vice minister of culture Fernando Rojas has told the Associated Press that changes will be made...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Nine international freedom of expression, press freedom, and professional journalists’ organisations condemn the lack of justice for the assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia a full...
On 12 September, the European Commission published a proposal for a Regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online. The proposal is very problematic from a fundamental rights and free expression perspective. Index on...
Cuban artists Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara and Yanelys Nuñez Leyva, members of the Index-award winning Museum of Dissidence, were arrested in Havana on 3 December, along with the performance artist Tania Bruguera
A narrative of safety and risk is hampering freedom of speech on UK university campuses, a new Index report has found.
“We’re all walking through a world in which one word we say can mean misreported — or partly reported — on Twitter and it blows up into something.”
Petitions, letters, and press releases from Index on Censorship