[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “Today journalism has become one of the most dangerous professions in the world,” said Frane Maroevic, director of the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, at a panel discussion for the...
Index on Censorship has released a new report detailing the state of media freedom in 35 European countries in the past four years. Threats include being burned in effigy, insulted, menaced, spat at, threatened with death and rape. There have been assassinations, lawsuits, and assaults.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In October 2018 Ireland voted -- with a significant majority -- to amend article 40.6.1 of its constitution to remove the criminalisation of the “publication or utterance" of anything deemed blasphemous. All...
Democracy must supply its own terms and conditions, ones that create structure for rights and responsibilities, both for its citizens and for corporations operating within it.
What I am concerned about is this removal of agency, this idea that simply because we hear something extreme, that we will go out and commit hateful and extremist acts
Before his death, Pavel Sheremet was one of Ukraine’s leading investigative journalists. He most notably investigated government corruption and border smuggling in his native Belarus, leading to his arrest in 1997 but winning him CPJ’s International Press Freedom Award in the process. He was detained, harassed and arrested because of his work. Then, in 2016, he was assassinated. And Ukrainian authorities still have not uncovered who’s to blame.
“Music gives me a voice and the power to survive physically and mentally,” rapper Khaled Harara tells Index on Censorship.
Index on Censorship, one of the world’s leading freedom of expression organisations, is to start taking donations in digital currency.
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, a Cuban artist, and co-founder of award-winning Museum of Dissidence performs in Trafalgar Square on 26 October
What does it say about our society, when some of us are censoring our most natural actions in order to fit in? Where there is a feeling that particular gestures or words will have undesired consequences, or worse, lead to some kind of punishment.