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CATEGORY: Middle East and North Africa
The price to be paid for making films in Iran
Celebrated Iranian film director Jafar Panahi talks to Index about his latest film It was Just an Accident – released in UK cinemas from 5 December – and explains why despite being imprisoned and censored, he won’t stop making movies in his home country
Dissidents have started challenging Saudi Arabia and Bahrain through the UK courts
Victims of unlawful state surveillance are refusing to back down
Israel bans Sudanese activists from protesting outside the UAE embassy in Tel Aviv
The 6,000-strong Sudanese community in Israel wanted to highlight the sponsorship of a militia perpetrating atrocities in their homeland
The week in free expression 31 October – 7 November
Index rounds up of some of the key stories covering censorship and free expression from the past seven days
Breaking norms to survive in war-torn Yemen
With 17 million people going hungry in the country, Yemenis are breaking taboos and taking jobs others say they shouldn’t
The week in free expression 24 October – 31 October
Index rounds up of some of the key stories covering censorship and free expression from the past seven days
Israeli society is not a monolith
Jewish-Palestinian group Standing Together is working on the front line of Israel’s battered peace movement
The week in free expression 17 October – 24 October
Index rounds up of some of the key stories covering censorship and free expression from the past seven days
Contents – Truth, trust & tricksters: Free expression in the age of AI
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