UK-based organisations will host events across Britain this year to mark Banned Books Week: bringing the internationally-celebrated event to a UK-wide audience for the first time.
Banned Books Week goes nationwide in 2018
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Turkey reporter stayed one step ahead of crackdown
Abdullah Bozkurt, the Ankara bureau chief for Today’s Zaman was forced into exile after the failed July 2016 coup in Turkey.
After colleague’s death, Russian reporter fears return to homeland
Kseniya Kirillova thought her stay in the U.S. would be only temporary.
Two journalists face up to 45 years for ‘espionage’
Two journalists for the shuttered pro-Kurdish Dihaber agency are facing up to 45 years in prison on terror and espionage charges even though their reporting is the only evidence that has been presented by prosecutors.
Tortured in Cameroon, reporter found asylum in Scotland
Charles Atangana knows as well as anyone the challenges of being a journalist in Cameroon.
KCK press trial: “The template for all Turkey’s media trials”
Once the biggest media trial in Turkey, the KCK press trial hardly makes the news today, even though it set a grim precedent for the criminalisation of journalistic activities in the country
ResonanceFM: What price protest?
Rachael Jolley, editor of Index on Censorship magazine, and Jodie Ginsberg, CEO of Index on Censorship, discuss our right to protest.
Index’s winter magazine launch party asks #WhatPriceProtest?
Index on Censorship magazine celebrated that launch of its winter 2017 magazine with an evening exploring the legacies of iconic protests from 1918 and 1968 to the modern day
Sri Lankan editor fled after attempt on life
When former editor Upali Tennakoon speculates about what led to the attempt on his life in 2009, two incidents jump to mind.
Survey: Online harassment of artists
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]International Arts Rights Advisors, a collective of arts and human rights experts of which Index on Censorship's Julia Farrington is an associate, is concerned that there is a chill on artistic expression as a...