As if there weren’t already enough BBC-haters in the world, the Corporation’s refusal to screen the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) appeal for Gaza threatens to recruit legions more. From MPs to celebrities and from archbishops to street...
Impartiality can be a form of censorship, says Jo Glanville Like all good censorship rows, the fallout from the BBC’s decision not to transmit the DEC appeal for Gaza has generated more publicity than it would ever have otherwise received. Every...
I really don't understand this. At all.
Our friend Roby Alampay of the South East Asian Press Alliance has an interesting post on Comment is Free on the iniquities of Thailand's lèse majesté laws: 'The charge of lese-majesty [sic] can be brought against anyone by anybody else. In the...
Or maybe do. For those of you who Twitter, you can now find Index on Censorship at http://twitter.com/Indoncensorship. For those of you who don't --- why not?
The Advertising Standards Authority has (sensibly, it should be said) decided not to get involved in an argument over whether God is likely to exist or not. Despite complaints by Britain's leading Christian campaigning group/some bloke with...
Gordon Brown has backed down from an attempt to make MPs' expenses exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, after Lib Dem and Conservative MPs refused to support the move. The campaign against the proposal was spearheaded by Unlock Democracy,...
This article by Yelena Milashina was originally published in Novaya Gazeta The killers have no fear because they know they will not be punished. But neither are their victims afraid, because when you defend others you cease to fear On 19 January in...
Index on Censorship, Article 19 and English PEN have issued a joint statement on the shocking murder of Anastasiya Barburova and Stanislav Markelov in Moscow yesterday. Read below The shocking murder of the lawyer Stanislav Markelov, and the young...
Watch history made here Update: Full text here Among other things, I liked this bit: 'To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history.'