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Index Awards: Tamas Bodoky on the refugee crisis, freedom of information and crowdfunding
The population of Hungary is very much polarised on the migrant issue. Hardliners support the government’s approach in
Jonathan Dimbleby: Twisting tigers’ tails (in the name of freedom and responsibility)
Journalist Jonathan Dimbleby is the former chair of Index on Censorship. This lecture was delivered at the 2015 Prix Italia. It is a privilege to be...
Montenegro: Using journalists as political pawns undermines the role of the media
Smear campaigns mean more journalists are exiting the profession, leaving a vacuum to be filled by those who work for lower pay and to lower standards
25 Oct: Question Everything – Cambridge Festival of Ideas
“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing” Euripides
Kunle Olulode: No place for the real Hollywood story
Ahead of the Battle of Ideas 2015, film historian Kunle Olulode explores why Birth of a Nation is no ordinary film
Russia’s targeting of NGOs ensnares journalist associations
Most of the Russian NGOs defending freedom of the press are blacklisted as “foreign agents”, while facing excessive pressure for non-compliance, writes Mapping Media Freedom correspondent Andrey Kalikh
Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink on her recent deportation from Turkey
The top of Frederike Geerdink’s blog, Kurdish Matters, still reads: ‘The only foreign journalist based in Diyarbakir’. The Dutch reporter was the only foreign journalist in Turkish Kurdistan until 9 September 2015 when she was deported from the country
Index and Mali film producers launch new fund to support persecuted musicians
Index is joining forces with the producers of a new film featuring Mali’s persecuted musicians to launch a fund that will offer support to musicians facing threats, violence, exile and criminal prosecution around the world.
Joint statement in support of European Parliament resolution on the human rights situation in Angola
The resolution calls for the release of all political prisoners and human rights defenders and highlights the case of José Marcos Mavungo
Malaysia: Dismissal of Sedition Act challenge a blow to free expression
Index calls on Malaysia to immediately drop all charges against Zunar and respect free expression
Index Awards: El Haqed still has a bad rap with the Moroccan authorities
Moroccan authorities have repeatedly prevented Mouad “El Haqed” Belghouat from performing in the country. So yet again, he turns to Europe
