Index on Censorship launches the latest issue of its magazine with a powerful night of poetry and music
Joe Mulhall, Solá Akingbolá and Hanna Komar champion silenced musicians
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CATEGORY: Music
Bobi Wine still standing up to oppression in Uganda, politically and musically
Yoweri Museveni’s most formidable challenger refuses to be silenced and remains on the frontline of protest
The war on drill
The police are disproportionately censoring and criminalising music by young Black men, with drill at the forefront
Contents – Unsung heroes: How musicians are raising their voices against oppression
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Sting, Margaret Atwood, Elif Shafak and Coldplay join more than 100 artists, musicians, writers and leading cultural figures to call for the immediate and unconditional release of Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi
Musician faces death sentence after three years of judicial harassment, including arrest, imprisonment and torture
Mehdi Rajabian’s Iran: where making music is a crime
Musician’s inclusion of women’s voices in his last album has led to his arrest. Here he talks exclusively to Index on Censorship about the challenges
Kill drill: The death of freedom of expression?
Censorship of a form of music which affords an already marginalised minority a rare opportunity to express themselves publicly is an attack against their fundamental rights as human beings.