Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout Europe
Mapping Media Freedom: Week in focus
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How Shakespeare’s plays smuggle in protest
Protest, dissent and controversy are all found within the pages of Shakespeare’s plays. Index on Censorship editor Rachael Jolley introduces a Shakespeare special issue as the 400th anniversary of his death approaches
27 May: 40 protests for Khadija Ismayilova’s 40th birthday
Join the Sport for Rights campaign in organising 40 protests to help mark the 40th birthday of Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova
Greece: Move to regulate broadcast market draws objection
As the Greek government prepares to open a public consultation on the tender for new broadcast licenses, the country’s private TV owners have escalated their criticisms of the plans for the broadcast market.
#IndexAwards2016: GreatFire campaigns for transparency of China’s censorship
GreatFire was set up in 2011 by three anonymous individuals to counter the “Great Firewall of China”, the systematic blocking by the Chinese government of any website deemed controversial
Staging Shakespearean Dissent: spring magazine 2016
Shakespeare, protest and dissent is the theme of the Spring issue of Index on Censorship magazine
Turkey: Media freedom in crisis
The increasingly autocratic government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey, has clamped down on press freedom and opposing political viewpoints
World Poetry Day: Seamus Heaney’s love of language
It’s the 17th annual World Poetry Day, which was first declared by Unesco in 1999 to help meet the world’s aesthetic needs by promoting the reading and writing of poetry
From nudity to “a political tsunami”: artistic freedom debated in Greece
“My job is to make good art,” said Belgian artist Kris Verdonck. “I have no interest in being deliberately offensive or provocative.”
Turkey: A long line of press freedom violations
Turkey’s government and courts have demonstrated their unwillingness to adhere to basic values on press freedom and media pluralism