19 Mar 2025
Join Index on Censorship for a powerful Belarus Liberty Day gathering outside the Embassy of Belarus to demand freedom for political prisoners unjustly detained by Lukashenka’s regime.
In solidarity with those behind bars, members of the Belarusian diaspora will read letters from Index on Censorship’s Letters from Lukashenka’s Prisoners campaign. We will ask attendees to write the names of imprisoned journalists, artists, and human rights defenders outside the embassy—a reminder to them, their friends and family and to Lukashenka that they are not forgotten.
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18 Dec 2024
Date: 29 January 2025
Time: 6-9pm
Venue: The Jago, London
Tickets: £6 (plus booking fee) redeemable for a drink on the night
Come and celebrate the launch of Index on Censorship’s latest magazine issue, Unsung Heroes, with an evening of music and poetry in solidarity with musicians around the world who are facing censorship, persecution and worse for their work.
Music is a universal language of self-expression—bringing people together to celebrate, grieve, protest and preserve cultural heritage. Yet across the globe, musicians are being silenced, suppressing critical voices and erasing histories.
Join us at The Jago in London to celebrate music and honour musicians who use their voice to stand up to oppression.
With music and poetry by Uyghur musicians Rahima Mahmut and Shohrat Nur, and Belarusian poet Hanna Komar. Final act will be Sola Akingbola and the Eegun Rhapsodies.
Free copies of the latest Index magazine will be available at the event for all attendees.
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8 Oct 2024
Join Index on Censorship at Liverpool John Moores University for a discussion on the multiple forces working to silence scientists today. Science at its core is about the pursuit of knowledge concerned with our physical world and its phenomena. Yet, for some rulers and populations, the very notion of it challenges ideological beliefs and political aims.
The silencing of scientists takes on many forms: from China, where obedience to the state trumps scientific development, forcing scientists to live in fear of arrest, to the USA, where scientists face increasing censorship for research concerning climate change and abortion, and India where the current government shows worrying signs of prioritising mythology for science students.
These barriers highlight the increasingly difficult contexts in which scientists are forced to work around the world today.
With speakers Dr Deborah Cohen, Paul Garner MB BS MD, and Dr Hannah Little. Chaired by Sarah Dawood, editor of Index on Censorship.
Deborah Cohen
Dr Deborah Cohen is an award winning medically qualified broadcaster, journalist and editor, who has worked across mainstream and academic print, digital, TV and radio. Currently, Dr. Cohen is a visiting senior fellow at LSE Health.
Having established the investigations unit at The BMJ, one of the world-leading medical and health policy journals, she specialises in complex investigations combining rigorous data analysis with journalism. Dr Cohen was recently science editor of ITV News and UK and health correspondent for BBC Newsnight leading their Covid-19 coverage. With several major investigations for BBC Panorama, Channel 4 Dispatches, ITV Tonight and BBC’s File on Four, Dr Cohen’s work has contributed to major changes in health policy and medical practice. It has led to questions being asked in parliaments around the world.
Her work has also garnered international media coverage and has been the basis of Netflix documentaries and global investigations.In addition to her experience working at the interface of the mainstream media and academia, Dr Cohen has substantial experience helping nervous doctors and scientists tell their stories and get critical information out into the public domain.
Paul Garner, MB BS MD
Paul Garner is Professor emeritus in evidence-based public health in infectious diseases. A medic, he trained in London, he worked in Papua New Guinea; then to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and then the Liverpool School. He was part of the team that set up Cochrane, and worked for 30 years in infectious diseases and guideline development. Paul developed the post-COVID-19 condition, and recovered using neuroplastic strategies.
Hannah Little
Dr Hannah Little is a lecturer in communication and media at the University of Liverpool and was previously a senior lecturer in the Science Communication Unit at UWE Bristol. As well as being an academic in science communication, she has worked professionally in science communication in the UK for more than a decade and has well-received appearances at the British Science Festival, TEDx and on BBC Radio 4. Hannah is on the board of directors for Open Rights Group, a UK-based digital rights advocacy organisation that campaigns for privacy and freedom of speech online.
About Index on Censorship
Index on Censorship is a non-profit organisation that campaigns for and defends free expression worldwide, including by publishing work by censored writers and artists and monitoring threats to free speech. They lead global advocacy campaigns to protect artistic, academic, media and digital freedom to strengthen the participatory foundations of modern democratic societies. Since 2021, they have collated, translated, and published letters from political prisoners in Belarus in an effort to show the human stories behind the struggle for human rights and democracy in the country.
This event celebrates the launch of Index’s latest magazine. Free copies available.
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