“Of course my family are worried,” says Ramazan Ölçen, who was detained for owning the copyrights to what was Turkey’s only Kurdish-language daily newspaper
A Chinese political cartoonist, a Russian rights activist, a crusading news organisation from Maldives and a digital collective from Turkey were the winners of the 2017 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards.
The 2017 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Campaigning Award winning Ildar Dadin’s acceptance speech.
The 2017 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Journalism Award-winning Maldives Independent acceptance speech.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Wang Liming, better known under the pseudonym Rebel Pepper, is one of China’s most notorious political cartoonists. For satirising Chinese Premier Xi Jinping and lampooning the ruling Communist Party, Rebel...
Internet shutdowns – the wholesale censorship of millions of voices and silencing of entire populations – pose a grave threat to the media, democracy, most of all vulnerable communities and ordinary citizens.
Since winning the Freemuse Award for Music in 2010, Mahsa Vahdat has continued to use her music to fight for freedom of expression for the women of Iran.
Ma Jian’s 2008 novel The Beijing Coma received the 2009 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression TR Fyvel Book Award.
Julian Assange and Wikileaks have made a huge global impact since winning an Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award in 2008.
France’s presidential election has been rife with accusations against the media.