“Robust challenges” should be sought-after rather than silencing those who share different views, said @timandraharkness @indexcensorship event
When Sunny Singh was writing her last novel, “Hotel Arcadia,” featuring an Indian protagonist caught in a terrorist siege, she received a response from a publisher she didn’t expect: “We already have our female war correspondent novel of the year.” They didn’t need another one.
Marking the 50th year anniversary of the end of UK theatre censorship ushered in by the Theatres Act of 1968, Index on Censorship hosted The Lord Chamberlain Regrets – Theatre and Censorship workshop looking at Noel Coward’s controversial plays.
Ahmad Abdallah from the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms and winner of a 2018 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award, talks about increased violations against free speech in the country
The UK has refused visas for a second time to two award-winning Cuban artists who had been invited to take up a two-week artistic residency.
A country with the largest territory in the world and a turbulent modern history, Russia is home to one of the most difficult media landscapes. Independent media has been around for less than three years, and in that time censorship has been tightening its grip with new-found strength.
The UK has refused visas for a second time to two award-winning Cuban artists who had been invited to take up a two-week artistic residency.
“I will never stop pushing them to bring the authors of the assault on me to justice since this is not a case lacking in information”
Index on Censorship is deeply saddened by the news that Louis Blom-Cooper
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