Belarus Free Theatre have been using their creative and subversive art to protest the dictatorial rule of Aleksandr Lukashenko for over a decade.
Belarus Free Theatre: “Dictators are scared of a strong mutual position”
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CATEGORY: United Kingdom
In conversation with Timothy Garton Ash: A blueprint for freer speech
The professor of European Studies at Oxford University talks to Index on Censorship about his new book Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World
8-9 July: The power of hip hop
A conference followed by a day of performance to consider hip hop’s role in revolutionary social, political and economic movements across the world.
UK government must ensure it protects free speech with new counter-extremism plans
The government’s planned Counter-Extremism and Safeguarding Bill must be carefully crafted to avoid damaging freedom of expression.
Mapping Media Freedom: Week in focus
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout the European
15 June: Illiberal democracy: the future of freedom
Europe was a bastion of hope for more than a million refugees last year. What brought them? A hunger for safety and security? Dreams of freedom?
Why is academic freedom important?
Academic freedom has been the subject of many debates in recent months. With speakers regularly being no-platformed
World Poetry Day: Seamus Heaney’s love of language
It’s the 17th annual World Poetry Day, which was first declared by Unesco in 1999 to help meet the world’s aesthetic needs by promoting the reading and writing of poetry
The What a Liberty! project visit the Magna Carta
What a Liberty! is a Heritage Lottery funded youth project run by Index on Censorship to create a radical re-imagining of the Magna Carta.
Pirate radio playlist
One of the UK’s most interesting historical legacies in music does not involve the actual bands that made up the British Invasion, but rather the people who played these band’s records illegally.