The past week has been busy for Index and in Hong Kong. It is up to us all to ensure award winners and political prisoners are not forgotten
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CATEGORY: Palestine
Index on Censorship announces 2024 Freedom of Expression award winners
Campaigners, artists and journalists from Iran, Palestine, Russia and Uganda are named in awards ceremony in London this week
Contents – Inconvenient truths: How scientists are being silenced around the world
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All the news that’s fake to print
Index on Censorship’s new editor rounds up the stories that have made headlines this week including disinformation around the Florida hurricane
Al Jazeera’s closure sets a dangerous precedent for journalism, says union
The shutdown of the West Bank news centre has been labelled a security step by Israeli officials, but a worrying form of press suppression by media workers, unions and academics.
One year on from 7 October: free speech violations in Israel and Palestine
Amongst the horrendous loss of life and destruction, journalists and peace activists have been persecuted. We summarise Index’s coverage of censorship throughout the conflict over the past 12 months
Telling fact from fiction
Journalistic “black holes”, such as in Gaza and Sudan, curtail people’s ability to understand geopolitics and conflict
Israel’s closure of Al Jazeera’s West Bank office is a blow to press freedom
This is just another example of Israel’s suppression of Palestinian journalists, which stops them from documenting the brutal war in Gaza
Israel’s trajectory into a nascent police state
Israel’s push towards authoritarianism by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition is not slowing down during the country’s ever-expanding military operations. If anything, it is intensifying
Contents – The final cut: How cinema is being used to change the global narrative
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