The Metropolitan Police sought an unprecedented Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) against the teenage and young adult defendants, prohibiting them from making music in the genre
Gang members banned from making “drill” music
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Podcast: Trouble in Paradise
The summer 2018 issue of Index on Censorship magazine takes you on holiday, just a different kind of holiday. From Malta to the Maldives, we explore how freedom of expression is under attack in dream destinations around the world.
Writer and broadcaster Trevor Phillips named new chair of Index on Censorship board
Index on Censorship has named writer and broadcaster Trevor Phillips as its new chair. Phillips succeeds journalist David Aaronovitch whose five-year term ends in September.
Say no to Article 13’s censorship machine
From academics and journalists to parents uploading videos of their children, Article 13’s upload filter would impact professional and ordinary content creators alike.
Join the youth advisory board
Index on Censorship is recruiting for its next youth advisory board, which will sit from July to December 2018.
Honduras: False story seeks to discredit digital newspaper Reporteros de Investigacion
Two days after the publication of an investigation into alleged inappropriate behaviour by a member of a Honduran military unit involving young female students, digital newspaper Reportero de Investigacion was targeted with a misleading story that purported to be from the outlet.
Project Exile: After hunger strike, Egyptian journalist in Qatar fears return
“I face probably a life sentence or maybe even worse. The idea of not being able to go back to your own country…is just heartbreaking.”
Cuba’s first alternative art biennial: “We built an inclusive space of free creation and true collaboration”
Despite every effort to stop it in its tracks, Cuba saw the successful completion of its first independent art biennial, organised without the support of the state
Bahraini court upholds Nabeel Rajab’s five-year prison sentence
Bahrain’s High Criminal Court of Appeal has upheld a five-year conviction for human rights activist Nabeel Rajab for critical tweets made from his account
Turkish artists continue their work in the face of repression
The last time Onur Erem and his girlfriend Zehra Doğan, a Turkish artist and journalist, met face-to-face, she was chirpy and seemed happy, he recalls