Press freedom in India continues to be chipped away under Narendra Modi in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, while Muslims are being blamed for the outbreak
Will international companies take on China’s attitude to censorship after the pandemic? Charlotte Middlehurst reports
A growing number of world leaders are avoiding questions asked by the media about coronavirus, as we report on our global map monitoring media violations
As coronavirus spreads throughout Europe we are seeing several common tactics to undermine our free expression
In September 2019, London-based photographer Yumna Al-Arashi announced that one of her photographs, showing women in a hammam, had been taken down by Instagram because, according to the platform, it fell foul of the community’s standards on adult...
Although there is no single “hate speech law” in the UK, nor any agreed international definition of the term, a number of laws forbid hatred or discrimination against individuals or groups, which can include things people say, based on colour, race, ethnicity and nationality, religion, and sexual orientation.
The Victory is Not an Option exhibition is a great example of how with the right training and preparation controversial art can inspire and reward
Child protection is a sensitive area of law and a deserved focus of public concern. As there is no clear legal definition of the concept of indecency, and because of the sensitivity of the matter, decisions made by the police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) can be subjective and inconsistent, and in the wrong context can seriously compromise freedom of expression rights.
Index’s case study on the production of a play covering the Trojan Horse affair
It is nearly 300 years since bookseller Edmund Curll was convicted in 1727 on a charge of obscenity in an English court for his publication of the mildly pornographic Venus in the Cloister or The Nun in Her Smock. Obscenity was thereafter recognised as a crime under common law.
Petitions, letters, and press releases from Index on Censorship