In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine looks at Thailand’s state of free expression a year after protesters were shot by government forces.
Thailand: Journalists in the firing line
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Stand on your guard
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Andrew Graham Yooll Britain has the best press in the world; or, if not the best, near enough the top. Its variety is rich and, even in its tabloid sector, there is a sense of public service as well as much...
Belarus and Ukraine
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine looks at efforts by Belarus and Ukraine to forge a post-Soviet identity through language and literature
Technology bytes back
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine looks at the problems posed by the spread of computers and the information overload.
Sex and violence
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine explores the state of women’s rights and censorship in the USA.
China: A world headache
Three years after the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators around Tiananmen Square in 1989, the human rights situation in China remains dismal as ever.
20th Anniversary: Reign of terror
In this issue, editor-in-chief of Sarajevo TV in Bosnia fled after an assassination attempt, she speaks on situations facing war-torn Bosnia journalists.
Brazil: Handicapped within limits
This issue of Index includes coverage of International Press Freedom Day, Brazil, Malawi, Algeria, Peru/Venezuela and Index’s Twentieth Anniversary.
20th Anniversary: Freedom and responsibility
This issue demonstrates for the first time determination of Iranian intellectuals inside Iran to speak out against censorship and to defend human rights.
20th Anniversary: Life is criticism of life
In this issue of Index on Censorship, a letter poet Jack Mapanje who was detained for three and a half years sent to those who had agitated on his behalf.
A quarterly journal set up in 1972, Index on Censorship magazine has published oppressed writers and refused to be silenced across hundreds of issues.
The brainchild of the poet Stephen Spender, and translator Michael Scammell, the magazine’s very first issue included a never-before-published poem, written while serving a sentence in a labour camp, by the Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who went on to win a Nobel prize later that year.
The magazine continued to be a thorn in the side of Soviet censors, but its scope was far wider. From the beginning, Index declared its mission to stand up for free expression as a fundamental human right for people everywhere – it was particularly vocal in its coverage of the oppressive military regimes of southern Europe and Latin America but was also clear that freedom of expression was not only a problem in faraway dictatorships. The winter 1979 issue, for example, reported on a controversy in the United States in which the Public Broadcasting Service had heavily edited a documentary about racism in Britain and then gone to court attempting to prevent screenings of the original version. Learn more.