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.
20th Anniversary: Reign of terror
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CATEGORY: Magazine
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.
20th Anniversary: Waiting for the new dictators
In this issue, Index on Censorship invited Pavel Litvinov to reflect on changes over the last 20 years. His appeal led to the founding of this magazine.
Secrecy and arms: Uncovering the weapons trade
This special issue of Index on Censorship magazine asks a simple but fundamental question: why is so little known about the weapons trade?
Africa: blueprint for freedom
In this issue, Index looks at the current state of African, including Liberia, Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
USSR: the hidden literary treasure of the Lubianka
In this issue, Index reveals secrets about the lives, works and deaths of persecuted Soviet writers hidden in Moscow’s KGB headquarters, the ‘Lubianka.’
Indonesia: banned theatre
In this issue, Index publishes excerpts of banned plays in Indonesia and highlights ongoing censorship in other Asian countries.
Chile: Death & the Maiden
In this issue, Index highlights Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman and his play.
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.