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Is drill the most controversial genre of music?

Caruana Galizia’s Son: ‘We Are At War With The Government Over My Mother’s Murder’

Reporting on the Italian mafia is becoming more dangerous than ever before

Against hate-speech laws

Books from left-wing shop sent to UKIP's Martin Costello (Swindon Advertiser, 12 August 2018)
Ukip members sent 'mind-broadening' reading after bookshop attack (Guardian, 9 August 2018)
Bookmarks attackers sent books to help 'broaden their minds' (Bookseller, 9 August 2018)
Count Dankula: Man who taught pug to do Nazi salute has appeal refused (Independent, 8 August 2018)
What is drill music and why is it linked to violent crime in London? (Metro, 8 August, 2018)
Utah encryption startup donates almost $2M to fight digital snooping (Deseret News, 5 August 2018)
Google accused of 'chilling' complicity in China after plans to launch censored search engine leak (The Telegraph, 1 August 2018)
Donald Trump’s words cause harm, again (Toronto Star, 31 July 2018)
Pakistan Elections and Censorship (BBC Click, 30 July 2018)
Haruki Murakami's new novel declared 'indecent' by Hong Kong censors
Should we go on holiday to repressive countries? (Prospect, 18 July 2018)
Public asked to vote on favourite banned book (Bookseller, 16 July 2018)
Khayrullo Mirsaidov: the journalist from Tajikistan who received 12 years in prison for his honesty and courage (Open Democracy, 15 July 2018)
Is drill the most controversial genre of music? (GQ, 14 July 2018)
Double vision: Malta’s sunny tourist image masks some murky goings-on (Eurozine, 11 July 2018)
Resonance FM: Trouble in paradise (10 July 2018)
It's 50 years since the end of stage censorship in Britain – but how free are artists really? (Independent, 9 July 2018)
Europe: Is the censorship machine coming? Plus good LGBTQI+ news in Poland (IFEX, 4 July 2018)
Banned drill videos have been reposted to Pornhub (Crack, 2 July 2018)
Platform uses crowdsourcing to fund journalism where press freedom is weak (CJR, 2 July 2018)
Recep Tayyip Erdogan wins presidential election: What this means for Turkey (iNews, 25 June 2018)
Reporting on the Italian mafia is becoming more dangerous than ever before (New Statesman, 22 June 2018)
The war against rap: censoring drill may seem radical but it's not new (The Guardian, 22 June 2018)
UK Drill Group 1011 Slapped With Police Ban On Creating Music (Complex, 20 June 2018)
English drill group banned from making music without police permission (The Industry Observer, 19 June 2018)
Drill music videos to be banned to stop rising crime (News, 19 June 2018)
Courts And Police Accused Of 'Censorship' As Drill Music Group Faces Ban (Huffington Post, 18 June 2018)
UK drill group 1011 banned from creating music (Crack, 18 June 2018)
London drill rap group banned from making music due to threat of violence (The Guardian, 15 June 2018)
David Aaronovitch: Assaults on free speech are led by the left (The Times, 12 June 2018)
A Date To Forget: Doubling down on the Tiananmen taboo (China Channel, LARB, 8 June 2018)
Caruana Galizia’s Son: ‘We Are At War With The Government Over My Mother’s Murder’ (Lovin Malta, 29 May 2018)
Abortion clinic buffer zones set 'dangerous precedent' for freedom of speech, campaigners say (The Telegraph, 28 May 2018)
Caruana Galizia family 'at war with Malta' after journalist's murder (The Guardian, 28 May 2018)
Survey warns of endemic financial and political pressure across European newsrooms (Journalism.co.uk, 24 May 2018)
Perdiendo el papel (Eurozine, 23 May 2018)
Facial recognition technology is "dangerously inaccurate" (IT Pro, 15 May 2018)
Queen meets Turkish president at Buckingham Palace (Evening Express, 15 May 2018)
Egyptian activist detained over social media video post criticizing government (CNN, 12 May 2018)
‘Free Turkey Media’ protest called during Erdogan visit to London (Ahval, 10 May 2018)
MPs must protect the free press: we all depend on it (The Times, 9 May 2018)
From Grenfell to blood transfusions, a free press can change lives—parliament must not stifle it (Prospect, 9 May 2018)
Jodie Ginsberg: "We need a free, vibrant, independent and troublesome media" (Sky News, 9 May 2018)
Our parliament should be the protector of free speech, not its suppressor (Telegraph, 8 May 2018)
MPs prepare to vote on new 'draconian' threat to Press freedom that could see publishers silenced (Mirror, 7 May 2018)
The data protection bill poses a real threat to the media's ability to hold the corrupt to account (Independent, 7 May 2018)
Against hate-speech laws (Spiked, 4 May 2018)
On World Press Freedom Day, Groups Highlight US Media Threats (VOA, 3 May 2018)
Media freedom in US under threat, report finds (IFEX, 3 May 2018)
Here Are The Worrying Figures About Our Press Freedom In 2018 (Rights Info, 3 May 2018)
Dossier: Freedom of the press in Bulgaria (OBCT, 3 May 2018)
Turkey: Defending journalism in a climate of fear (Amnesty International, 3 May 2018)
Defending journalism in Turkey's climate of fear (Open Democracy, 2 May 2018)
George Osborne warns Data Protection Bill cost amendments would be 'body blow' to regional press (Press Gazette, 1 May 2018)
Parliament must not put even more curbs on press freedom (Evening Standard, 30 April 2018)
Press freedom: getting darker (Bureau of Investigative Journalsim, 27 April 2018)
Projecting Poland and its past (Eurozine, 27 April 2018)
Europe’s duty to save journalists - Dunja Mijatović (Times of Malta, 26 April 2018)
What if we didn’t... have the First Amendment? (Mic, 25 April 2018)
La défense de la liberté d’expression primée par Index on Censorship (d’ArtsHebdo|Médias, 25 April 2018)
YouTuber Count Dankula Fined £800 in ‘Sh*tposting’ Case (Brietbart, 23 April 2018)
Man who taught girlfriend's pet pug dog to perform Nazi salutes fined £800 (The Independent, 23 April 2018)
The Londoner (Evening Standard, 20 April 2018)
ECRF: Fighting for life and freedom in Egypt (New Internationalist, 20 April 2018)
'Congo needs another voice': bloggers talk art, sex and football in DRC (The Guardian, 20 April 2018)
Spotlight on the media (Visegrad/Insight, 19 April 2018)
London NGOs renew calls for justice for murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia (Malta Independent, 18 April 2018)
Prosecution of Rafael Marques de Morais part of Angolan Government's renewed effort to stifle free expression (PEN America, 27 March 2018)
Freedom of Expression Awards (BBC Click, 17 April 2018)
Eight vigils around the world to mark six months since Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder (Malta Today, 16 April 2018)
Kidnapping: a tactic to silence journalists (Open Democracy, 16 April 2018)
From Washington To Berlin: Vigils To Mark Six Months Since Caruana Galizia’s Assassination (Lovin Malta, 15 April 2018)
Vigil for Daphne Caruana Galizia in Brussels (CPJ, 15 April 2018)
UN Amina J. Mohammed Meets Nigeria Oil Exec on SDGs, Heads to Qatar, Censors (Inner City Press, 13 April 2018)
Freedom of Expression Awards (BBC, 12 April 2018)
NCAC Joins 32 Organizations in Amicus Brief to Strike Down the Trump Administration’s Travel Ban (NCAC, 10 April 2018)
DARE: Denver post rebels against its hedge-fund ownership (PEN America, 9 April 2018)
Scottish news publishers warn cost penalties in Data Protection Bill would be 'extremely damaging' to industry (Press Gazette, 9 April 2018)
Support for Bahraini human rights defender on seventh anniversary of his arrest (Ekklesia, 9 April 2018)
NGOs call for release of human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja on 7th anniversary of his arrest (IFEX, 5 April 2018
Coalition of arts group resists third iteration of Trump travel ban (PEN America, 2 April 2018)
Censorship in contemporary comedy (British Comedy Guide, 30 March 2018)
Seventeen int’l press freedom groups condemn raid on pro-Kurdish daily (SCF, 30 March 2018)
Over 1,000 cases of limitation to press freedom recorded in Europe in 2017 (SEE News, 28 March 2018)
Inside Afghanistan’s first all-women coding school (Dazed, 27 March 2018)
Slovaks take to streets as PM's resignation fails to stifle anger (CNN)
Index on Censorship organisation slams Nazi dog conviction (The National)
Should we ban books denying the Holocaust from high street shops? (New Statesman)
Index on Censorship: Беларусь – в лидерах по преследованию журналистов (Хартыя’97)
Fundraising bid to map attacks against freedom of expression (Bookseller)
Forty-five years later, the censors are as busy as ever (Buenos Aires Times)
Freedom of expression is our last and only defence (Jewish News)
Mudzvova honoured for gay activism (NewsDay, 16 Feb 2018)
Mèdia.cat, nominat als Premis Llibertat d'Expressió de l'Index on Censorship (Comunicacio21, 16 Feb 2018)
Croatian 'Novosti' Shortlisted for Freedom of Expression Award (Balkan Insight, 16 Feb 2018)
Champions of free speech back at LJMU (Liverpool Life, 15 Feb 2018)
Max Mosley 'using data protection law to gag the media' (The Telegraph, 15 Feb 2018)
Whose streets? Private ownership of public space could curb our right to protest (Prospect, 24 Jan 2018)
Index on Censorship o tužbi Nenada Popovića protiv KRIK-a (KRIK, 24 Jan 2018)
China Bans Hip-Hop, Popular Culture Of ‘Low-Taste Content’. (Moguldom, 23 Jan 2018)
The biggest risk to American journalism isn't posed by Trump (The Guardian, 19 Jan 2018)
Assessing Trump’s press freedom record, one year on (CJR, 19 Jan 2019)
Obituary: Lois Sieff (The Times)
'We want to know who orchestrated Caruana Galizia's murder' - CoE partners (Times of Malta, 12 Jan 2018)
Europe tries to fight hate, harassment, and fake news without killing free speech (CJR, 17 Jan 2018)
European Commission pressured by MEPs to protect media from 'abusive' high-cost lawsuits (Press Gazette, 17 Jan 2018)
The Lords and Leveson are as bad as each other (Conservative Woman, 17 Jan 2018)
Europe tries to fight hate, harassment, and fake news without killing free speech (CJR, 17 Jan 2018)
Legal advocates for the arts support Clay, Pulphus (St. Louis American, 12 Jan 2018)
Free speech groups praise UK decision to publish tell-all Trump book (Bookseller, 5 Jan 2018)
Free speech groups praise UK decision to publish tell-all Trump book (The Bookseller)
Singing from the same songbook? How a growing number of Asian countries are enforcing the national anthem (Open Democracy)
Theatres to receive training on staging controversial work (The Stage)
Impunity for murders of journalists discussed in Vienna and Paris (b92)
Caruana Galizia family expresses dismay after minister publishes private letter (Malta Independent)
'Local media are simply disappearing': how financial pressures are killing independent media (The Guardian)
Vietnamese blogger jailed for reporting devastating chemical spill but CEOs responsible walk free (IBT)
Malta: Index speaks with RTK about murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia
Meeting with the Tehran Government is the least Boris Johnson can do (iNews)
Robert McCrum: Bringing out Havel and Kundera (Radio Prague)
Sage is latest publisher to warn of China censorship pressures (Financial Times)
Russian Journalist Says Attacker Was Intent on Killing Her (US News and World Report)
Sonos is spending $1.5M to fight censorship in the arts (Fast Company)
International press freedom groups condemn killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia (Malta Today)
Free speech advocate to mark Banned Books Week at Limerick event (Limerick Post)
LGBT people are being detained and beaten in Azerbaijan (Dazed)
Banned Books Week: 'In 2017, censorship comes from an outraged public' (The Guardian)
Banned Books Week: How censorship through the decades cracked down on literary sex...(Independent)
Benjamin Netanyahu bars Al Jazeera journalist from Israeli free speech seminar (International Business Times)
Int’l organizations call to stand in solidarity with Nabeel Rajab in front of Bahraini embassy in London (ABNA)
Russian complaint brings accusation of censorship for Estonia (Baltic Times)
Russian complaint brings accusations of censorship for Estonia (Err)
When is a nipple not just a nipple? (The Telegraph)
Kevin Myers withdraws from Limerick talk about censorship (Irish Times)
'Don't punish CUP over censorship U-turn', China urged (The Bookseller)
Free speech must apply to all — even those we find offensive
The free press is under threat—and now has a new, dangerous enemy (Prospect)
Was Google wrong to fire James Damore after memo controversy? (BBC)
Journalism Advocates Join In Tracking Trump-Era Attacks On The Press (Huffington Post)
One of Syria’s best-known democracy activists has been executed (Washington Post)
Media Organizations Band Together to Track Press Freedom Violations in U.S. (PJ Media)
Bassel Khartabil: Syrian internet freedom activist 'executed' (BBC News)
Turkey: Midwives among those arrested in Erdogan's latest purge of opponents (IBT)
Trump Slams CNN In Poland (Patch)
Bahrain: Activist Nabeel Rajab jailed for 'fake news' (BBC)
Bahrain: Activist Nabeel Rajab jailed for 'fake news' (BBC News)
‘This is no laughing matter’: Index on Censorship’s Stand Up for Satire targets comedy clampdowns (SW Londoner)
Londoner's Diary (Evening Standard)
Northern indies given ACE boost while BookTrust receives £23m windfall (The Bookseller)
Rights advocates call on UAE to release Ahmed Mansoor (Al Jazeera)
Qatar row: Al Jazeera hits back over closure demands (BBC News)
Queen’s Speech confirms Govt pushing ahead on ‘all forms of extremism’ (Christian Institute)
Atwood calls for free speech martyrs to be honoured (The Bookseller)
Banned Books Week 2017 to Celebrate Everyone’s Freedom to Read (American Booksellers)
First journalists go on trial over Turkey coup bid (Middle East Eye)
Prominent journalists among those facing trial over failed Turkish coup (France 24)
Index on Censorship: 45 years fighting for writers (Irish Times)
Laughter can ease life's pain - we must protect the freedom to joke (New Statesman)
Laughter can ease life's pain - we must protect the freedom to joke (New Statesman)
What the Romans did for us: on the age-old art of propaganda (Open Democracy)
Journalist shot while reporting from Yemen warns media (Press Gazette)
More than 3,000 threats to press freedom put on the map in new online project (Press Gazette)
Expert Contributors: Rachael Jolley, Index on Censorship on Fake News (Economist Educational Foundation)
Banned Books Week coming to the UK this year
One of Mexico's most revered narco journalists was gunned down outside his office (Vice News)
Backstory: The Many Shades of Journalistic Fearlessness (The Wire)
UK rights group urges queen to tackle Bahrain king on repression (Middle East Eye)
Journalists need courage and paranoia in repressive Maldives regime (The New Arab)
Free speech groups call for public interest defence for whistleblowers (The Guardian)
New report from Index on Censorship paints a bleak picture for U.S. press freedom (Poynter)
Double standards: Do all journalist lives matter? (The Manila Times)
UK falls further down the World Press Freedom Index (Wired)
America's place in the world (National Review)
VOA连线：变态辣椒获国际言论自由奖环时叫板为哪般？(Voice of America)
Referendum Sonuçları Britanya Parlamentosu'nda Konuşuldu (Arti 49)
Turkey Blocks'a ifade özgürlüğü ödülü (T24)
Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards (BBC Click)
Rights groups urge EU action against post-coup abuses in Turkey (Turkey Purge)
Анастасия Зотова: "Хочу быть не женой Дадина, а самой собой" (BBC)
Chinese Cartoonist, Maldives Newspaper Among Winners of Freedom of Expression Awards (The Wire)
Pro-Israel activists protest over Breaking the Silence award nomination (Jewish Chronicle)
Breaking the Silence shortlisted for freedom of expression award (Jewish News)
Georgia election results in no winner, both sides crowing; Osbourne decides he’d rather be newspaper editor than an MP (Talking New Media)
Letter: Reporters are not the enemy of the people (Topeka Capital-Journal)
Nur's detention on Index on Censorship (Yeniaysa)
Eric Gill: can we separate the artist from the abuser? (The Guardian)
Universities should be environments of robust debate, not ‘safe spaces’ (THE)
Anti-occupation group ‘Breaking the Silence’ in London next week (Jewish News)
Vicky Bowman, the diplomat who caught the Burma bug (Mizzima)
Jüterbog's mayor Raue brings the country into disrepute (Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten)
'Secret deals' with tech companies unacceptable, UK government told
Europe's 'last dictator' Alexander Lukashenko cracks the whip on opposition in Belarus (International Business Times)
Amber Rudd slammed for ‘rushed through’ consultation on Snoopers’ Charter changes (Left Foot Forward)
Kazakhstan: Campaigners Appeal to Nazarbayev Over Journalist’s Case (EurasiaNet)
Ifigenija Simonović za STA: V Penu več mladih in politično nevtralnih posameznikov (Sta Misli)
Garnishee orders: Media freedom is a fundamental right but EU 'has no power to intervene' (Malta Independent)
Shut down but not silenced: Isis play Homegrown demands to be staged (The Guardian)
Murder, assault and imprisonment among 'growing spectrum of threats' facing journalists in Europe (Press Gazette)
Madani Younis: Radical Islam play ‘was censored’ (The Stage)
Le organizzazioni americane per la libertà di stampa pronte a lanciare un sito unico per segnalare gli attacchi (di Trump, ma non solo) contro i giornalisti nel Paese (Prima Online)
Press freedom organizations are teaming up to start a news site (Poynter)
Mehriban Aliyeva: The many faces of Azerbaijan’s First Lady and new Vice President (LSE)
Press Freedom Faces ‘Unprecedented’ Threat in 2017 (Rights Info)
In Defense of Milo Yiannopoulos's Book (Publishers Weekly)
Unravelling Leveson legislation could take 15 years (Press Gazette)
UK considers new punishments for whistleblowers and journalists to deter the next Snowden (The Verge)
The UK considers tougher prison sentences for whistleblowers (Endgadget)
Whistleblowers and investigative journalists will not face jail, Downing Street insists (I News)
Law Commission’s recommended changes to espionage laws a threat to journalists (Scottish Legal News)
Journalists and whistleblowers face 14 years in prison for exposing leaked official secrets (Daily Mail)
Media workers stand with refugees (Green Left Weekly)
Journalists who obtain leaked official material could be sent to prison under new proposals (The Telegraph)
Planned Espionage Act could jail journos and whistleblowers as spies (The Register)
Cast of a controversial play are reunited at the Young Vic (London News)
Axed play to be relaunched at Young Vic (The Stage)
Pastor Mawarire nominated for global award (Bulawayo)
Mawarire nominated for global award (Zimbabwe Daily)
Five things you didn't know about FREED pastor Evan Mawarire (News 24)
Fahmi Reza finalist for freedom of expression award (Malay Mail)
These are the people protecting freedom of expression across the world (The London Economic)
Arrested #ThisFlag Zimbabwean pastor Evan Mawarire listed for 2017 Index on Censorship award (I News)
A Syrian journalist's ordeal after Trump's travel ban (Mashable)
We must not turn our backs on journalists who lack our freedom (The Guardian)
Section 40: Protection for the People, or Oppression of the Press? (Mediafile)
Political News Sources You Can Trust Over The Next 4 Years (Bustle)
Why BuzzFeed published the Trump dossier (CityBeat)
The Battle of Raging Bitch (Washingtonian)
Legacy of Charlie Hebdo honoured in event at Parliament (National Secular Society)
Section 40 - David Cameron's ticking time-bomb under the press (The Guardian)
Time running out to help stop new law on the media (News & Star)
The stories which would NOT have been told under controversial new press law (Birmingham Mail)
Why Fleet Street is right to fight Government-backed regulation of the press (Independent)
Press gagging laws will be a 'gift to the corrupt' as deadline looms (Mirror)
Free Speech Groups, Literature Associations, English Teachers Declare Support for MILO Book Publisher (Breitbart News)
Free Speech Groups Defend S&S Yiannopoulos Deal (Publishers Weekly)
Times naming of Rotherham child abuser would be 'inconceivable' under Section 40, says Andrew Norfolk (Press Gazette)
'Index' translates work of murdered Argentine writer (The Bookseller)
Freedom of the press and a state regulator
Bahrain activist Nabeel Rajab's trial postponed for fifth time (The New Arab)
A free press must not be bullied by the state (The Times)
Stop press! Here’s a ten-point plan for regulating the news industry (The Conversation)
Impress? Ipso? Thankfully, there’s a better idea (The Guardian)
Theresa May urged to raise human rights concerns on Gulf visit (Guardian)
IWPR Contributor Nominated for Prestigious Freedom of Expression Award (IWPR)
Sports journalist jailed for three months in Bahrain over a tweet (Guardian)
Index on Censorship зафіксував посилення глобального тиску на журналістів (Media Sapiens)
Svenska politikers syn på Vilks är deprimerande (Dagens Nyheter)
How music can fight against censorship (Monocle Radio 24)
Digital Economy Bill enters report stage and third reading – experts attack data sharing provision (Computer Business Review)
Index on Censorship: journalists now under 'unprecedented' attack (Guardian)
Telegraph letter turns up heat over Digital Economy Bill data sharing proposals (Government Computing)
Privacy campaigners call for rethink on government data-sharing proposals (Public Technology)
Website porn crackdown leads to row on censorship (Daily Mail)
No super-kinky web smut please, we're British (The Register)
UK ISPs may be forced to block porn sites that snub age checks, sex acts face ban (Ars Technica)
Backlash over UK bill to block 'unconventional' porn (The Week)
UK to censor online videos of 'non-conventional' sex acts (Guardian)
‘Christians feel they are being censored’: Index on Censorship CEO (Christian Institute)
Preview: Forbidden Songs with Moddi (Songlines)
City University students vote for campus ban on Sun, Mail and Express (Guardian)
Christians feel their views are being 'shut down' says CEO of Index on Censorship (Premier)
Italy journalists 'most threatened' (ANSA)
Is the EU abandoning its promotion of freedom of expression via trade agreements? (Disruptive Competition Project)
Journalism groups oppose French global delisting order (Reporters Committee)
Bemoeienis VVD met OneWorld in censuurindex (Villamedia)
UK re-elected to UN Human Rights Council despite worrying moves against press freedom at home (Open Democracy)
John McLellan: Charter that is a right royal stitch-up (The Herald)
Freedom fighters (Times Literary Supplement)
Project Censored (Santa Fe Reporter)
Shades of Censorship (TLS Voices)
LGBT group in Northern Ireland can have their cake (and eat it, too) (VICE)
Impress approved as regulatory body amid press freedom 'fears' (The Telegraph)
Index on Censorship magazine review (Eurozine)
UK condemned for seizing Syrian journalist’s passport (Aljazeera)
Syrian journalist whose passport was seized at Heathrow at Assad government’s request speaks out (The Independent)
Journalists Behind Bars (Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso)
Free speech groups warn against legal crackdown on social media (Heat Street)
Whose name is on the frame? (Fountain Ink)
Murder in Moscow: Anna's legacy (Eurozine)
Why did the UK government act against a journalist on behalf of Syria? (The Guardian)
iGmena Summit 2016 hosted in Tunis (Ground Report)
Hilary Mantel warns writers they must stand by what they say (The Guardian)
British police criticised for lack of transparency in Bahrain training deal (The Guardian)
Azerbaijan's war on independent media (Global Journalist)
What is the value of toleration? (Prospect)

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