Senior reporter Ian Cobain was denied entry to the country's major arms fair on the advice of the event's security team. Read the full article.
CATEGORY: Index in the Press
Border police can’t be allowed to snoop on our social media (The Times)
Rachael Jolley, Index on Censorship editor-in-chief writes in The Times Thunderer column. Border officials around the world are increasingly...
Border police can’t be allowed to snoop on our social media (The Times)
Index on Censorship editor-in-chief Rachael Jolley wrote in The Times' Thunderer column today about how countries are increasingly wanting to look...
British Far-Right Groups Would Be Banned From Appearing In The Media Under A New Policy Proposal (Buzzfeed)
British far-right groups should be banned from appearing on the BBC and other media because they end up being the “acceptable face” for extremist...
Russian authorities urged to stop harassing journalists reporting Moscow protests (Press Gazette)
Press freedom groups have urged Russian authorities to stop harassing journalists covering ongoing political protests in Moscow, which have seen...
Indies win funding to mark The Testaments publication day (Bookseller)
Vintage, in partnership with Index on Censorship, joined forces earlier this year to fund the best ideas for publication events. Winners Red Lion...
The street artist capturing the impact of the war in Yemen (The Economist, 19 August 2019)
Frequent visitors to the skatepark on London’s South Bank may have noticed two new works of art among the decades-old graffiti. Both spray-painted...
The street artist capturing the impact of the war in Yemen (Economist)
Using stencils and spray paint, Murad Subay creates haunting figures, portraits and motifs. Read the full article.
Appointment of ‘biased’ Carlile to Prevent review ‘shatters its credibility’ (Observer)
Lord Carlile told parliament he was ‘somewhat biased’ towards controversial anti-terror programme, undermining his position, rights groups say. Read...
In no man’s land: anger as publisher puts book criticising army on hold (Observer)
Penguin group rejects claim of censorship after halting publication of Simon Akam’s The Changing of the Guard. Read the full article.
Review of Prevent counter-extremism scheme risks becoming ‘whitewash’, government warned (Independent)
A review of the controversial Prevent counter-extremism programme is at risk of becoming a “whitewash”, the government has been warned. Read the...
Andrew Graham-Yooll: Memories of an absent friend (Buenos Aires Times)
Argentine Embassy in London and Anglo-Argentine Society remember late writer and journalist with two events in British capital.
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