You may have noticed the announcement earlier this week of a joint inquiry in to libel by Index on Censorship and English PEN. The issue of the unfairness of UK defamation laws has been exercising us for some time, and we're not the only ones....
With remarkably little comment, the Internet Watch Foundation reversed its block on the Wikipedia page for the Scorpions' Virgin Killer album last week. Seems they weren't actually sure whether the 32-year-old image was illegal or not. Meanwhile,...
There was a curious coda to the Tunisian government’s attempt to sabotage a debate on the parlous state of free expression in Tunisia, which tail-ended a conclave of journalists and publishers in Beirut at the weekend.
This article was first published on Comment is Free On 13 December, 1948, Frederic Warburg typed up his comments on the manuscript of George Orwell's recently completed Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Orwell has no hope, or at least he allows his reader no...
Index on Censorship Associate Editor Rohan Jayasekera this week travelled to the Arab Free Press Forum in Beirut, where he had hoped to meet, among others, Tunisian activists and writers Mohamed Abbou and Lotfi Hidouri. The Tunisian authorities put...
Index on Censorship contributor Kenan Malik was a guest on the Little Atoms radio show last Friday. You can listen to the interview here.
So says AC Grayling over at Comment is Free. Professor Grayling, normally known as a quite strident critic of religion, points out that Articles 18 (which guarantees freedom of worship) and 19 (freedom of speech) of the UN Declaration on Human...
'An appeal judge in Australia has ruled that an animation depicting well-known cartoon characters engaging in sexual acts is child pornography. The Internet cartoon featured characters from the Simpsons TV series.' The rest is on the BBC here
Russian collective memory of the various catastrophes to which the country has been subjected during the last 100 years has long been extremely selective. While there are a huge number of grandiose memorials to those who died in the Second World...
