In his new ebook, tech expert Jamie Bartlett describes what he sees as the long-term ‘Snowden effect’: the explosion of new ways to keep online secrets and protect privacy, and the challenges that presents for state security services.
If the story fades, the bigots can rebuild, this time on their terms, high on resentment and low on truth
In January, Index on Censorship reported on the beginning of the trial of human rights activist Rasul Jafarov, who is being tried on spurious charges. The Azerbaijani embassy has written to Index on Censorship responding to that article. Here is our response.
Stripped of his Bahraini citizenship, Ali Abdulemam responds by saying “I have an identity and I am proud of it”.
Ecuadorean cartoonist Xavier Bonilla, known as Bonil and an arts nominee in the 2015 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression awards, faces a hearing today under the country’s controversial communications law.
Joshua Bonehill is a keyboard Fuhrer, an online agitator, but even he deserves free speech.
On the day when the four surviving copies of the original 1215 Magna Carta were briefly brought together for the first time, Index on Censorship held a debate to celebrate the launch of the winter issue of the magazine.
As Index on Censorship preps for this year’s Freedom of Expression Awards, one of 2014’s campaigner nominees, Rommy Mom, gives a Nigerian perspective on the rise of Boko Haram
As journalist Peter Greste returns to Australia, his two colleagues Canadian-Egyptian journalist Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Egyptian journalist Baher Mohamed languish in an Egyptian prison.
The attack on Charlie Hebdo dramatically increased the pressure on freedom of speech in all of Europe. How do we respond to audiences who do not recognize satire as a legitimate form of free expression, without increasing this pressure?