In over 80 years, the mechanisms of public outrage have changed very little.
Padraig Reidy: Public outrage — from radio plays to Twitter mobs
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
World Cup 2014: What’s the score on freedom of expression?
Index has compiled some key stats for each World Cup country
25 years after the fall of Berlin Wall, Europe’s past is being rewritten
As the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, Index on Censorship Rachael Jolley magazine editor argues we should not forget our history
Group of death: The worst World Cup countries for free expression
Index has looked at the countries taking part in arguably the biggest show on earth, and put together our own group of death — the freedom of expression edition
Good sports: Which free-speech offending countries should we blow the whistle on?
Against the backdrop of the World Cup in Brazil, we ask how, during global sporting events, should we respond to countries that repress their citizen’s free expression? Should we engage or ignore?
11 countries where you should think twice about insulting someone
Insult laws can be very easily manipulated by those in positions of power to shut down and punish criticism
Padraig Reidy: Jeremy Paxman, poetry Stalin
Poets, we all agree, are terribly misunderstood and undervalued. If it were not for poets, how would we know what things were like other things. How would we live! How would we love! How would we die!
19 June: Beating Retreat – Digital Freedom in Turkey, Russia and Azerbaijan
Index on Censorship will bring some of Russia, Turkey and Azerbaijan’s foremost journalists and digital freedom advocates to Brussels. Join us to hear what has been happening on the frontlines in the Black Sea region and to consider what we should learn from these experiences?
When Google tripped: Forgetting the right to be forgotten
Who limits access to information in the context of a search, and what it produces, continues to loom large. The right to know jousts with the entitlement to be invisible, writes Binoy Kampmark
The importance of a loyalist theatre
For the last two decades the stubborn, powerful myth that the creative arts and the Protestant working class in Northern Ireland do not go together has been regularly proclaimed, Connal Parr writes