When Dave Connis worked in his local library in Tennessee, contentious books would frequently disappear. They would, he told Index, just “never come back” and instead be “lost” to the world.
On 26 July 2019, Turkey’s highest court brought new hope to Turkish academics when it ruled that ten educators who had signed the petition “We will not be a Party to This Crime!” (Bu Suça Ortak Olmayacağız) had been tried unfairly and in violation of their rights.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/b21faoXVpM4"][vc_column_text]“Students in the United States must be free to express their views, without feeling pressured to censor their speech...We can and will push back hard against the...
Since winning the 2019 Index Award for Campaigning, CRNI has been monitoring the situation with Badiucao, a Chinese dissident cartoonist living in exile in Australia
Toni Morrison — a revered author, critic, professor, and editor of literature focussed on the African-American experience — died on the evening of 6 August, due to complications from pneumonia. She was 88.
The top 11 most often banned books of 2018 reveal what kinds of ideas our culture wants to censor — and what audiences are the most likely to be limited because of censorship.
Nothing defined 20th-century American culture quite like the comic book. But soon after after comics rose in popularity, the industry drew criticism.
Paul Dorr, a director of a Christian organisation, is set to stand trial for burning books he checked out of the Orange City library in Iowa
Open Rights Group’s OrgCon 2019 explored privacy and surveillance online.
UN Special Rapporteur David Kaye speaks to Timandra Harkness about free speech and the internet
Petitions, letters, and press releases from Index on Censorship