In this issue, Index examines political dissent, and the lack thereof, under the rule of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung.
North Korea: Not one dissent?
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CATEGORY: Magazine
Samuel Beckett and Vaclav Havel
In this issue, Index interviews Czech writer Vaclav Havel. Havel discusses his time in prison, his position now and the peace movements.
Religion and human rights
In this issue, Index examines the interaction between human rights and religion and explores how religious people, globally, find themselves under attack.
Censorship and freedoms in Kenya
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine explores Kenya’s atmosphere for freedom of expression.
Writers and apartheid
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine interviews three South African poets who describe their personal commitment in South Africa and how it has affected their work
Underground writers: Life under the censor
In this issue, Index examines the censorship of the press and life as a censored writer in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.
Music is dangerous
In this issue, Index examines the global censorship of music and its history from the time of Confucius to the present day.
Human rights reporting
In this issue former Secretary General of Amnesty International discusses the differences between reports from human rights groups from governments.
Radio and TV
In this issue, Index investigates the freedom of broadcasters in Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and more.
Israel/West Bank
In this issue, Index examines if ‘forgotten Palestinians’ been successfully integrated into the Israeli state with Samih al-Qasim and Emile Habibi
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.