Index on Censorship editor Jo Glanville was a guest on the BBC's Newsnight on Thursday night, discussing the Geert Wilders controversy. You can watch it here (five minutes in).
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Despite the riots and threats, I stand by what I wrote
Independent writer Johann Hari's article on religion has sparked riots in Kolkata, after it was reprinted in English-language publication the Statesman. Here, Hari explains why he remains defiant.
Geert Wilders should not be banned from Britain
This article was originally posted on Comment is Free How do you solve a problem like Geert Wilders? The solution certainly doesn't lie in barring him from entering the country. Wilders' film Fitna, for those of you who haven't feverishly YouTubed...
Neo-Nazis threaten Russian research centre
On Sunday Russian neo-Nazi group BTO emailed a death threat to Galina Kozhevnikova, the deputy head of human rights research centre SOVA. The group threatened to murder a number of journalists and intellectuals in the next year and told...
Index on Geert Wilders
Index on Censorship news editor Padraig Reidy was a guest on BBC Radio Five Live’s Breakfast show this morning, discussing the banning of Geert Wilders (right) from Britain, and its ramifications for free expression.
BNP excluded from Church of England
Martin Rowson's cartoon for the New Humanist blog says it all.
Geert Wilders banned from UK
Dutch MP Geert Wilders has been told he will face arrest if he attempts to enter the UK. Wilders had been invited to London by Lord Pearson of Rannoch, and was scheduled to host a screening and discussion of his controversial film Fitna. But Mr...
There is no censorship in China
...and no oppression of minorities either. Oh, well that's all right then. Sometimes it's the sheer chutzpah of governments that astounds. At the time of the second Gulf war, many watched Iraqi spokesman Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf (Comical Ali) stand...
Freedom of expression, censorship and multiculturalism
It is in the public debate on the way in which the principle of freedom of expression is exercised that ethical issues and transgressions must be addressed --- but not by placing constraints on the principle of freedom of expression, says William...
Index on Censorship on Night Waves
Index on Censorship editor Jo Glanville and contributor Kenan Malik will be discussing the fallout from Ayatollah Khomeini's death sentence on Salman Rushdie on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves tonight. Here's the blurb: Matthew Sweet presents a Night...