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Academic freedom under assault in Turkey’s courts
Over 1,100 academics are facing trial in the wake of the failed July 2016 coup in Turkey.
Join the youth advisory board
Index on Censorship is recruiting for its next youth advisory board, which will sit from January to June 2018.
Release artist and writer Ramón Esono Ebalé
Index on Censorship has joined with 18 other parties to call on the president of Equatorial Guinea to release cartoonist Ramón Esono Ebalé.
Six times Facebook ignored their own community standards when removing content
Facebook has received much criticism recently around the removal of content and its lack of transparency as to the reasons why
Cartoonist Ramón Esono Ebalé wins CRNI award
Ramón Esono Ebalé has been named the winner of the 2017 Cartoonists Rights Network International Award for Courage in Editorial Cartooning.
Azerbaijan: Open letter to EU ahead of Aliyev’s Brussels visit
NGOs urge the EU member state heads and leaders to use the summit to call on president Aliyev to end the current human rights crackdown in Azerbaijan
Will Franken: Nigel Farage and Donald Trump are funnier than most comedians
With a paradoxically destructive optimism, satirists, from the age of the Roman poet Juvenal and since, have been driven by an almost childlike conviction that the world can and should do better
Index welcomes call for better protection of free expression on campus
Index on Censorship welcomes the call by Minister Jo Johnson for freedom of expression to be better protected in universities.
Jodie Ginsberg: Art and authoritarianism
Because of the very nature of artistic expression itself: that the more ways the censors try to find to shut down the ideas, the beliefs they don’t like, the more artists find creative ways to express those same ideas.
Petitions, letters, and press releases from Index on Censorship