The Queen’s Speech is on 8 May, and Home Secretary Theresa May is still pushing for “Snooper’s Charter” to go through. Write to your MP to and let them know that the bill should be dropped.
CATEGORY: United Kingdom

Will the government allow corporations to sue individuals for libel?
The Libel Reform Campaign is concerned that the government will force through an amendment tabled by libel barrister Edward Garner QC allowing corporations to sue individuals for libel

Index on Censorship Student Blogging Competition
Think you have what it takes to be published by Index on Censorship? Here’s your chance to find out. Enter our student blogging competition! To enter the competition, submit your piece with your name, university, course and year of study, to [email protected]

Index on Censorship: Leveson, the Royal Charter and press regulation
Index on Censorship views press freedom as one core part of the fundamental right to freedom of expression. Read Index’s position on the Royal Charter for press regulation

Thatcher: Paradoxes of secrecy
In this Index on Censorship magazine article from 1988, Duncan Campbell claimed that former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died this week, was “utterly disdainful of press freedom and open government”

Index responds to the Royal Charter
The Royal Charter has raised grave concerns over damages and chilling effect on web users
Index Freedom of Expression Awards 2013
Leveson fiasco: costs and other questions
Leveson fiasco: costs and other questions
Index responds to collapse of Leveson press reform talks
Index CEO Kirsty Hughes responds to the breakdown of cross-party press regulation talks
Financial Times betrays central principle in stance on media freedom
The Financial Times, the Guardian, and the Independent this week shifted their position towards a compromise on press regulation. Index criticises the change of stance, which risks threatening press freedom