Index on Censorship joined others at the Tate Modern today in a show of solidarity with those artists arrested in Cuba for peacefully protesting Decree 349, a law that will severely limit artistic freedom in the country
The decree does not include anything new to the current practice of the Cuban government, but it does offer a legal cover to a reactionary, ancient and regressive practice
Eddy Munyaneza is an award-winning filmmaker who was forced into exile when he created documentaries about Burundi’s president Pierre Nkurunziza, who was running for a third term and the political crisis that followed.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Update: All arrested artists have now been released, although they remain under police surveillance. Cuba's vice...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Nine international freedom of expression, press freedom, and professional journalists’ organisations condemn the...
On 12 September, the European Commission published a proposal for a Regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online. The...
Cuban artists Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara and Yanelys Nuñez Leyva, members of the Index-award winning Museum of Dissidence, were arrested in Havana on 3 December, along with the performance artist Tania Bruguera
A narrative of safety and risk is hampering freedom of speech on UK university campuses, a new Index report has found.
“We’re all walking through a world in which one word we say can mean misreported — or partly reported — on Twitter and it blows up into something.”
We urge EU officials to discuss Turkey’s freedom of expression crisis and fractured rule of law during their high-level political dialogue with the Turkish government on 22 November
Rights, Risks & Reputations is a training programme developed by Index, What Next? and Cause4 to help art and cultural leaders understand and challenge a risk-averse culture and incorporate these topics within their organisations.
Index on Censorship joins with seven other human rights organisations to call for an independent review of the UK’s Prevent strategy.
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