When SOCPA was passed, the clauses on protest seemed to have a single purpose - the eviction of lone protestor Brian Haw from his permanent plot on Parliament Square. The act stated that protests within one kilometre of parliament had to be cleared...
The 23 january decision came despite a campaign by human rights organizations, prominent European politicians, and intellectuals such as Bernard Henri Levy and Noam Chomsky. “Today’s decision delivers a double blow - one to freedom of expression...
MP David Maclean’s bill to exempt Parliament and MPs’ correspondence from the Freedom of Information Act presents a serious attack on the public’s right to know and the scrutiny of the democratic process say Article 19, English PEN and Index on...
This year’s awards will be presented by Anna Ford, with a keynote speech from Jung Chang, bestselling author of Mao: The Untold Story and Wild Swans. This year’s panel of judges will include: Mark Kermode, Conor Gearty, Dreda Say Mitchell and...
Back in 2005 Kofi Annan, then Secretary-General of the UN, stated that the holding of the WSIS in Tunisia offered “a good opportunity for the Government of Tunisia to address various human rights concerns, including those related to freedom of...
Index/Seagull will publish four-six books a year, beginning in mid 2007. The focus will be on questions of rights, liberties, toleration, silencing, censorship and dissent. We start with Manifestos for the Twenty-First Century. Free...
The Satanic Verses author says it sometimes seems that it’s open season on writers around the world
I have never been to Sarajevo, but I feel that I belong to it. There is a Sarajevo of the mind, an imagined Sarajevo whose present ruination and torment exiles us all
Serving members of the US military claim the right not to go to war
Extracts from the text of a declaration issued by four student leaders in Tiananmen Square just before the massacre on the night of 3/4 June 1989