[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Introduction On 12 March 1971 the ten-year period of democratic rule that Turkey had been enjoying was brought to an end by a military coup which forced the government then in power to resign, and created in its place a new ‘ strong government’ designed to put an end to what was regarded as […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The present conflict in Northern Ireland has caused problems for television (and other media) in both the United Kingdom and in the Republic of Ireland. How far is it lawful or legitimate for the media to go in...
In this issue, Index publishes material describing changes that have taken place in Turkey over the last two years.
In this issue, Index publishes an address given in South Africa which illustrates some of the problems connected with the South African government’s plans to abolish the right of appeal against decisions brought by the State Publications Control Board.
In this issue, Index investigates tensions between broadcasters and authorities in Northern Ireland.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="This article appear in the first issue of Index on Censorship magazine in 1972."][vc_column_text] Introduction Writers & Scholars International is an organization formed by a group of writers,...
At this moment, in many countries, there are writers and scholars interested in ideas, or in describing life exactly as they see it, who are sent to labour camps and prisons.
In its first issue, Index investigated struggles for freedom around the world, including in Russia, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Spain and Portugal.
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.