Child protection is a sensitive area of law and a deserved focus of public concern. The prospect of a police investigation alone will be a matter of substantial press interest, while an actual prosecution, although unlikely in the professional arts sector, would nevertheless result in grave consequences for the gallery and the artist.
Free expression is not a “nice-to-have” add-on, a mere luxury principle tacked on the end of other more basic rights
Following a conversation at a What Next? meeting about the difficult situations cultural organisations can find themselves in when an action sparks...
The public space should be accessible to cultural actors, artists and organisations representing civil society and should be free of constraints
Index welcomes King Hamad’s pardoning of human rights defender Nabeel Rajab, but calls for the release of all political prisoners in Bahrain
Index on Censorship and 27 other organisations call for the investigation into his case to be urgently raised to the federal level
Index calls on Malaysia to immediately drop all charges against Zunar and respect free expression
Nine Bahraini and international NGOs and the University College Union launched a campaign this week marking the 100th day of detained human rights defender Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace’s hunger strike
The debate tackled issues ranging from safe spaces and the right to offend, to the absence of absolute freedom of speech and illegal versus legal speech
With threats ranging from “no-platforming”, to governments trying to suppress critical voices, and corporate controls on research funding, academics and writers from across the world have signed Index’s open letter on why academic freedom needs urgent protection
Index on Censorship is delighted to announce it has joined the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, launched this week in Leipzig, Germany, as a founder member
Index calls on Moroccan authorities to respect freedom of expression by allowing Mouad “El Haqed” Belghouat and other artists to freely perform in the country
Petitions, letters, and press releases from Index on Censorship
