Index on Censorship youth advisory board member Muira McCammon discusses linguistic isolation at Guantanamo Bay
Muira McCammon: GiTMO’s linguistic isolation
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Ravian Ruys: Without trust, free speech suffers
Index on Censorship youth advisory board member Ravian Ruys explores the impact of eroding public trust is having on free expression in The Netherlands
Jade Jackman: An act against knowledge and thought
Index on Censorship youth advisory board member Jade Jackman explains why she thinks counter-terrorism legislation is a threat to academic freedom
Harsh Ghildiyal: Defamation is not a crime
Index on Censorship youth advisory board member Harsh Ghildiyal explains why he thinks India’s criminal defamation laws are not reasonable
Tom Carter: No-platforming Nigel
Index on Censorship youth advisory board member Tom Carter explains why he thinks no-platforming undermines free expression
Matthew Brown: Spying on NGOs a step too far
Index youth advisory board member Matthew Brown explores why he thinks mass surveillance has gone too far.
Padraig Reidy: “Denis O’Brien to sue everyone”
Ireland’s richest media mogul, owner of the country’s largest newspaper group, had a satire malfunction last week when his solicitors, Meaghers, pursued up-and-coming satirical website Waterford Whispers.
Creative team behind Homegrown “deeply shocked” by cancellation
The creative team behind the cancelled National Youth Theatre production Homegrown said they are “deeply shocked.”
Raymond Joseph: South Africa’s camera-shy police target journalists
Despite high-level meetings between media and the police’s top brass, who say that such actions are not condoned, incidents of journalist harassment continue to occur
Salil Tripathi: As Singapore turns 50, is it on the cusp of becoming different?
As the Asian city-state marks its 50th anniversary of independence, Salil Tripathi examines the country’s fuzzy relationship with free expression