In this issue, Index publishes a historical survey of censorship and cultural repression in Iran from the seventh century to the present day.
Repression in Iran
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CATEGORY: Magazine
Preserving a nation’s morale
In this issue, Index investigates political apathy in Czechoslovakia as morale declines
The 3 Marias
In this issue, Index investigates the case of the 3 Marias in a Portuguese context and a Women’s Lib context.
TV & Politics
In this issue, Index publishes a report from Paris on the conflict between Arthur Conte and President Pompidou.
Samizdat under Soviet law
In this issue, Index investigates the legal status of Russia’s unofficial and unpublished writings.
The end of samizdat?
In this issue, Index explores the process of the Soviet Union signing the UCC.
Turkey on the slippery slope
[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 […]
The Irish TV sackings
[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...
Turkey on the slippery slope
In this issue, Index publishes material describing changes that have taken place in Turkey over the last two years.
The primary homeland
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.
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.