The 2017 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Campaigning Award winning Ildar Dadin’s acceptance speech.
Ildar Dadin: “Together, we can refuse to look away”
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CATEGORY: Fellowship 2017
Zaheena Rasheed, Maldives Independent: “This award feels like a lifeline”
The 2017 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Journalism Award-winning Maldives Independent acceptance speech.
Rebel Pepper: “I will continue working hard on creating new cartoons”
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Wang Liming, better known under the pseudonym Rebel Pepper, is one of China’s most notorious political...
Alp Toker, Turkey Blocks: “Online censorship is increasingly used to mask more severe human rights violations”
Internet shutdowns – the wholesale censorship of millions of voices and silencing of entire populations – pose a grave threat to the media, democracy, most of all vulnerable communities and ordinary citizens.
Ildar Dadin: “For Putin it’s important to break the spirit of a free man”
Russian activist Ildar Dadin spoke about the total breakdown of the rule of law and his own incarceration and torture at an event hosted by Doughty Street Chambers.
#IndexAwards2017: Turkey Blocks strives to win back the internet
Established in 2015, Turkey Blocks is an independent digital research organisation that monitors internet access restrictions in Turkey
Freedom of Expression Awards Fellowship: Supporting efforts to defeat censorship
The Freedom of Expression Awards Fellowship programme offers direct support to groups and individuals striving to defeat censorship globally.
#IndexAwards2017: Ildar Dadin courageously defends the right to protest in Russia
For his one-man protests, Ildar Dadin was sent to prison where he was tortured, before his conviction was quashed in February 2017
#IndexAwards 2017: Chinese cartoonist Rebel Pepper refuses to put down his pen
Despite persecution for his work, Rebel Pepper continues to satirise the Chinese state from a life in exile
Russian supreme court orders release of Index Award nominee Ildar Dadin
The long-term opposition and LGBT rights activist had been jailed under Russia’s repressive Public Assembly Law.
