Mouad Belghouat is a Moroccan rapper and human rights activist who releases music under the moniker El Haqed, roughly translated as ‘The Enraged’.
#IndexAwards2015: Arts nominee Mouad “El Haqed” Belghouat
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#IndexAwards2015: Arts nominee Songhoy Blues
Fleeing North Mali after Islamist groups captured the area and imposed strict sharia law banning all secular music, four musicians who met as refugees came together to form the band Songhoy Blues.
#IndexAwards2015: Journalism nominee Ekho Moskvy
One of few media outlets that is critical of Vladimir Putin’s regime, the radio station is revered by many as the last bastion of free speech in the country
#IndexAwards2015: Journalism nominee Rafael Marques de Morais
Rafael Marques de Morais is an Angolan journalist and human rights activist. He is currently facing nine charges of defamation after publishing on human rights abuses committed during diamond mining operations in Angola.
#IndexAwards2015: Journalism nominee Lirio Abbate
Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards 2015 journalism nominee Lirio Abbate is an investigative journalist working for the weekly news magazine L’Espresso.
#IndexAwards2015: Journalism nominees
This week we will be showcasing our shortlisted nominees from the journalism category. This year's nominees include Lirio Abbate, an Italian...
#IndexAwards2015: Journalism nominee Safa Al Ahmad
Safa Al Ahmad is a Saudi journalist and documentary maker who has spent the last three years covertly filming an unreported mass uprising in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province.
Index Awards 2015: Meet the 17 nominees who fight for free expression
A journalist under 24-hour protection because of his reports into the Italian mafia, an Ecuadorian cartoonist facing prosecution for mocking a congressmen’s pay packet, and lawyers who challenged Turkey over its social media ban, are among those shortlisted for the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards
Judges for 2015 Index Freedom of Expression Awards named
The awards have honoured some of the world’s most remarkable free expression heroes
Daniel Bergner: 2005 award winner constantly reminded of threats to free expression
Daniel Bergner is an author and journalist who writes for New York Times Magazine; in 2005 he won an Index award for his book Soldiers of Light, which told the stories from inside war-torn Sierra Leone.
Şanar Yurdatapan: “The censorship and oppression on culture and arts is still going on”
Winner of the 2002 Index award for Circumvention of Censorship, Şanar Yurdatapan talks to Index about artistic censorship
Malala Yousafzai accepts 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
Pakistani education campaigner Malala Yousafzai will accept the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize today in Oslo
The Freedom of Expression Awards and Fellowship is a key Index on Censorship programme designed to highlight and amplify the work of some of the world’s most courageous defenders of freedom of expression. Previous winners include Journalist Fergal Keane, novelist Ma Jian, lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, activist Malala Yousafzai, cartoonist Ali Ferzat, journalists Anna Politkovskaya and Fergal Keane, and Bahrain Center for Human Rights. Learn more.
