03 Jul 19 | News and features, Turkey, Turkey Uncensored
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This article is part our partnership with the Media and Law Studies Association. The Stories of Justice series is an MLSA project supported by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”96575″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][vc_column_text]
They say that people get a smile on their face when justice is served. Justice in Turkey also makes people smile – sometimes, even when it is not served. What a mysterious success! The person who passes those verdicts could even be nominated for the Nobel prize as a master of black humor if only one forgot that the sentences were products of justice. I think there isn’t a single country on earth with a judicial system that pleases everybody. Something like that is only possible in the afterlife for believers. A judicial system that pleases the majority might be labeled “not bad,” even if one can’t call it “good.” But if this is the case, then should we wait for kingdom come to get justice? Don’t you think that might be a little too late? Justice delayed is justice denied, isn’t it? I can hear the people of my country responding with “better late than never.” But why have late justice when you can have it early?
Justice in Turkey has been lame for a long time because it has been sabotaging itself. However good the laws are, those that mete out justice have either been bad of their own accord, or they have had to be bad out of their own interest.
The latter is the case for most of them. The main reason for verdicts that would make even the best black comedy masters envious is that those that implement justice are under the guidance of the government, meaning they have to act according to orders from on high. What counts for today’s zeitgeist is not that justice is served but the threat of a judicial stick coming crashing down on your head if you contradict the spirit of the time. It’s not the law, but the rules of the government, that are in force. You can see it looking at how the “good boys” of today are acquitted one by one. This is what the zeitgeist requires.
This country is home to a judge who accepted a prosecutor’s request to tap a number of telephones, including his own. When the incident was revealed, he said he could not read properly at the time since he did not have his glasses on him and signed the verdict without fully understanding the request. Let’s take a brief look at some unique ideas of justice in Turkey, which would actually fit better in a work of fictional humor than a courtroom. But this is the real world, and these sentences have all affected the lives of people by violating their right to freedom.
A suspect who was accused of chanting slogans in a crowd was sentenced for conducting terrorism propaganda. So far, so good. But what if that person is deaf and mute? If you live in Turkey, you have to avoid crowds as much as you can, for your own sake. Otherwise, you might get a headache, or even a migraine, from the authorities for reasons like failing to walk away from crowds, looking at people who are dancing a political halay, whistling or keeping the rhythm to the music. I’m telling you…
Speaking about health issues, you should mind your hands, washing them frequently. This is naturally important for hygiene, but it is also important for avoiding particular illnesses and saving you from being detained as a suspect. Please, don’t ask how. One civil servant, who was returning from a cadastral field trip, was detained and later sued for throwing stones at police because his hands were dirty. We cannot know for certain if not washing his hands had pathological consequences, but it obviously resulted in psychological trauma.
Don’t get excited, and never run. Be like a koala; never be in a rush. Move gently and slowly. Otherwise, police who arrive to intervene against an incident may check by hand and notice that your heart is beating fast, leading them to detain and sue you for being involved in an incident and escaping from police. This is part of the reason Turkey is not particularly successful in track and field.
If you happen to come to Turkey from an Asian country, then you should have a translator with you. Otherwise, the court might fail to read your defense after you’ve spent nearly two years behind bars because it cannot find a translator. You might have started learning Turkish in the meantime. Speaking a single language is very important in Turkey. But which language is it, do you think? You would be joking if you thought it was anything but Turkish. Kurdish, for one, is still mentioned as “X” or “unknown language” in parliamentary minutes.
Make sure not to have any maps on scraps of paper, your mobile, tablet or other device you carry. And if there are some different colors and lines on the Turkey part of that map, then you’re in for trouble, because you can be arrested or sued for planning to divide the country. Such a map, which showed the habitats and population of bees in Turkey, was accepted as evidence in a case in which the prosecutor sought an aggravated life sentence for a person who allegedly “disrupted the unity and territorial integrity of the state.” Alternatively, you may face a probe for carrying a world map that shows Turkey smaller than it is. Only those who experience this would know.
If your country has the colors of yellow, red and green in its flag – which is the case for many African countries – and if you have clothing with the same colors, don’t come to Turkey wearing it. You might turn into a terrorism suspect the moment you land at the airport. Please don’t be that evil-minded, dear! They don’t like colors or colors together in Turkey. This is why the first traffic lights in Yüksekova in the southeast had blue-colored lamps instead of green. This might also be why the most appreciated color in the country is black.
Let’s not look into this headache profession of mine. “Propagate for me or shut up,” is what they say here. Justice? Who’s lost it that you’ll find it? A journalist whose name I will not disclose wrote a story that received a prize. Then what happened? The author of the story was sentenced.
On a chilly night in the middle of winter, your sole fear shouldn’t be freezing your hands and legs off as you carry diesel oil on the back of your mule to earn some pocket money. That’s because your body might be torn to a thousand pieces if one of those iron birds they call fighter jets pours fire on the group you are walking with. The next thing that mules will carry might be the body parts of you and your friends wrapped in a blanket. They won’t care why you were taking the sharp ridge of the mountain on a freezing night, and it won’t matter whether you are armed or not. Who cares that most of you are children! Nothing matters at all. Here, “everything is a small detail if the issue is the homeland.” This is what you live through; this is what they make you go through; this is the truth. Take it or leave it! Because at the end of the probe launched to investigate the incident mentioned above, it was ruled that those who died were responsible.
If you are the “other” in this country, you should know that you carry death in your pocket. Your burial shroud should be within easy reach because it is not the creator who knows when you will need it, but those who see themselves as his reflection on earth. Under these conditions, how could I pen a story on justice? Now as “the other,” I ask for a “justice for others.” Do you have it or should I wait for the afterlife? To be honest, I have no intention of ringing the bells for the angel of death. Actually, this story itself is a complete work of fiction and doesn’t have the slightest connection to reality. Does it?
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”107712″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://medyavehukuk.org/en”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]The Media and Law Studies Association is a Turkish non-profit (registered as Medya ve Hukuk Çalışmaları Derneği) that campaigns to support democracy and the rule of law in Turkey. MLSA offers legal protection to journalists and promotes the public’s right to information with an emphasis on supporting financial and science reporting.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_basic_grid post_type=”post” max_items=”4″ element_width=”6″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1561714600534-3dc93beb-c283-8″ taxonomies=”19913″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
02 Jul 19 | Awards, Fellowship, Fellowship 2019
These are not the best of times to be a political cartoonist. Last week, one of Canada’s top cartoonists, Michael de Adder, had his contract terminated by a publishing company in New Brunswick after a cartoon he did on US President Donald Trump went viral on social media. Read the article in full.
02 Jul 19 | Index in the Press
Do arts organizations and artists in the UK need support to deal with issues of censorship? A new initiative from the London-based nonprofit Index on Censorship, which ‘campaigns for and defends free expression worldwide’, suggests just that. The recently launched Arts Censorship Support Service is, says Index CEO Jodie Ginsberg, responding to a climate of polarized political views and trial by social media, concerns about the UK government’s anti-extremism Prevent strategy, and worries over the Online Harms White Paper with its catch-all approach to online safety. ‘It’s about a culture of censorship and about giving confidence. So the message I want to give is for artists and organizations to feel confident, to feel supported.’ Read in full.
02 Jul 19 | Artistic Freedom, News and features
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”107744″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][vc_column_text]It could be argued that identity has become a dominant feature in contemporary art and performance since the 1980s, where artists have been and still are exploring the multiple worlds they inhabit, the overlaps between identity, language, history, geopolitics, race and representation. The characteristics of identity as represented in folk or popular culture and the media are interrogated through performance and the semiotics of how identity is enacted. A particular controversial trope in performance has been that of the “blackface”. Wikipedia’s entry describes blackface as a form of “theatrical make-up used predominantly by non-black performers to represent a caricature of a black person”. Undoubtedly the grotesquery and exaggeration contributed to justifying the dehumanising of Africans and other non-white people by the dominant white masters in slavery and colonialism, and popular culture shows such as The Black and White Minstrel Show.
Recently “blackfacing” has been highlighted in many cultural manifestations that may not necessarily have been intended to demean Black or other non-white people. In January 2019, The film Mary Poppins was accused by a writer in the New York Times of shamelessly flirting with blackface, and an American restaurant displaying a photograph of white coal miners covered in coal-soot was seen as offensive by Rashaad Thomas in his opinion piece for azcentral, the digital home of The Arizona Republic newspaper, in February 2019.
Viewing blackfacing through the lens of racial subordination/superiority struck me again this year when I met and mentored the Warwickshire based British visual artist Faye Claridge this year for Bloomberg New Contemporaries. Claridge’s work reveals a deep fascination with “representation and belonging in a country obsessed with (constantly reworked) history” by exploring “how current and future identities are shaped by ideas about the past”. She works with history, folk traditions and archives to “connect the public, especially young people, to mythologies about personal, local and national identity”, particularly in rural English culture. An ongoing body of work of hers called Of Their Own Volition involved research and public participation that excavated the fluid context for blacking-up in traditional Border Morris Dancing. The work questions context, perception and tradition. However, she was compelled to remove earlier works from this series relating to Border Morris Dance.
I asked her what motivated or inspired her to research the Border Morris Dance tradition, she told me that she “felt an urgency to revisit portraits of morris dancers with blackened faces I’d made almost 10 years previously after becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the explanations I was asked to give in their defence. The final catalyst for this was when one of my images was used for a photography conference at the Tate but was then censored after it provoked complaints.” The subject is close Claridge’s heart, as the artist herself comes from a family of morris dancers. The explanation given for blacking-up in border morris “replicated a very old form of cheap and easy sooty disguise. I was told this was adopted by dancers for a range of reasons: to avoid recognition from potential employees, to beg anonymously, to bring luck – and fertility – as a pretend stranger and/or to look scary to ward off evil spirits. No reasons for disguise were related to race, I was told, and any conflation with derogatory black and white minstrel blacking was unfortunately mixing visuals with entirely different histories and motives.” This received knowledge led Claridge to seek evidence by speaking to experts, visiting key sites and digging into archival material.
However, her research did not uncover clear motives for blacking-up. “I started to recognise that finding historical evidence is only a small part of the issue. The impact of blacking up in performance (of any kind) today has unavoidable aesthetic links to the deliberately damaging racial stereotypes of the black and white minstrels. Even if undisputable evidence pointed to a non-racial origin for morris blacking, its continued use for any reason after the acknowledged harm of minstrelsy has to be questioned.” Part of the work involves a series of portraits of contemporary Border Morris dancers. One of the photographs that Claridge showed me is of a woman with long flowing brunette hair blacked up, holding a bouquet of local flowers – daisies, daffodils, ivy and bird-feathers – staged against the backdrop of a painted scenery of washed out grey clouds and English mountains. Claridge is unable to show this portrait, and other similar photographs, in exhibitions as the sitter withdrew her permission when the artist invited her to contribute to the research on blacking-up. Claridge has since re-imagined the image by masking the subject with the letter that the sitter sent to the artist. The letter, with personal information redacted, says “I would prefer that you no longer use this image of me… I no longer feel qualified to comment on the blacking up issue… I hope you will respect my wishes”. The image is displayed on the back of a picture frame instead of the front as a metaphor for the original work’s journey into self-censorship.
This work has been selected for an open competition organised by the Nottingham based gallery The New Art Exchange but when Claridge proposed the series to other curators she was met with much unease and anxiety about the work. One curator responded that “It’s all very difficult terrain out there at the moment… have a good look around what black artists are doing in this area. The question of authorship is the critical issue it seems. Who can speak for who…We are finding people returning to very insecure places and taboo subjects raise anxieties.” Another curator told Claridge that “I imagine you know what sticky territory you are in (!), and I guess you know about other precedents for this conversation.”
Art institutions are becoming increasingly risk-averse and unable to deal with the questions that such works throw up, the people in the photographs feel exposed through the perceived racist lens and the artist is a white British woman…”who can speak for who”, it’s a taboo subject that may trigger the viewers’ anxieties but shouldn’t art be a tool to ask difficult questions, to provoke debate and transcend the divisions and borders relating to race and identity? The origins of blackfacing in border morris remains a mystery and has led the artist to question her own motivations: “The research journey has taken me to other, far deeper, questions about my power as an artist in gathering and sharing opinions. If I respect and repeat all views equally then my role is strangely inhuman, if I assert my own opinions, am I unfairly using my position? My nature has been exposed and tested: I’m keenly aware that I don’t like conflict and the risk of upsetting people deeply makes me anxious. It’s also apparent that I don’t like power being misused and I hate inequality. This is what motivated my drive to seek evidence (or lack of it) for morris blacking at the start, to see if my own work had a case to answer in this regard. I’ve concluded that it has; I won’t exhibit the original morris portraits again without significant alterations and my work evolving from this research more transparently references the problematics of power, blurred histories and appropriation…”
Increasingly, artists are forced to self-censor due to the possible backlash not only by curators, academics and the community, but also from fellow artists. It is part of a wider problem that I highlighted in a blog for the Manifesto Club on the self-censorship of a young adult novel by Amélie Wen Zhao. This is worrying for artistic freedom.
As Claridge says, there is “a sadness that it should come to this and a question of where exactly this is that we have come to. I remain unsure.”
Manick Govinda is a freelance arts consultant, artist mentor, campaigner and curator. His writings can be found here.
Faye Claridge’s work Blackout will be exhibited at NAE Open from 13 July to 8 September 2019.[/vc_column_text][vc_basic_grid post_type=”post” max_items=”4″ element_width=”6″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1562063442406-116696fa-3728-1″ taxonomies=”15469″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
02 Jul 19 | Index in the Press
We are shocked that the Open Source Festival in Düsseldorf has disinvited the black American rapper Talib Kweli, leading to the cancellation of his Germany tour, after he refused to denounce the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights. Attempts in Germany to impose political conditions on artists who support Palestinian rights, particularly targeting people of colour and queer artists, comprise a shameful trend of censorship, anti-Palestinian repression, and attacks on freedom of conscience. Read the full letter.
01 Jul 19 | Campaigns -- Featured, Digital Freedom, Digital Freedom Statements, Statements
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Rt Hon Jeremy Wright QC MP
Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
100 Parliament Street
London
SW1A 2BQ
1 July 2019
Re: Online Harms White Paper
Dear Secretary of State,
We write as a group of organisations keenly interested in the government’s proposals for Internet regulation. We recently convened a day-long multi-stakeholder workshop to discuss the implications of the 2019 Online Harms White Paper and write to share the conclusions and findings from that event.
Organisations represented at the workshop included human rights NGOs, social media platforms, telecoms and media companies, news media, industry associations, parenting and child rights organisations, academia, think tanks, government departments and independent regulators. The aim was to bring together representatives from all relevant sectors, discuss differences of opinion and find areas of consensus.
One unanimous finding from the day was that “there is a need for a systematic approach to dealing with problematic content online, but the group did not support the adoption of a ‘duty of care’ approach”. Many participants noted that the concept of duty of care does not translate well from the offline to the online context, and as such it provides little clarity as to what duties can and should be expected of companies within scope of the OHWP.
Another key finding of the workshop was that all parties involved felt that whilst government departments had conducted outreach through this process, no exercise conducted by government had brought together all of the key groups in this process (including civil society organisations, childrens’ charities, media companies, global tech giants, British startups, and UK media/press) in a coherent way.
We believe that this risks resulting in a process dominated by some stakeholders and where policy is developed without a full overview of where stakeholders’ concerns and consensus really lie. We urge that after the formal consultation period closes, you consider acting to convene a comprehensive meeting with all relevant stakeholders formally to discuss key elements of the proposals and map a way forward for the proposals.
We welcome this opportunity to continue to engage with the government and look forward to your response.
Yours sincerely,
Oxford Internet Institute
Open Rights Group
Global Partners Digital
Index on Censorship
The Coalition for a Digital Economy
Cc Secretary of State for the Home Department, The Right Hon. Sajid Javid MP[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_basic_grid post_type=”post” max_items=”4″ element_width=”6″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1561990413053-0b824c89-2f78-8″ taxonomies=”4883″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
01 Jul 19 | Global Journalist, media freedom featured, Morocco, News and features
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This article is part of Index on Censorship partner Global Journalist’s Project Exile series, which has published interviews with exiled journalists from around the world.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”107703″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]When the security software on Moroccan journalist Hicham Mansouri’s computer alerted him that there had been a number of attempts to hack his email, he did what came naturally: he began investigating.
Little did he know that the 2015 incident would be followed by a bizarre effort by Moroccan police to sexually humiliate him and a female friend and ten torturous months in jail after being arrested on trumped-up charges of operating a brothel and adultery, which is illegal in the North African nation.
Efforts to prosecute or intimidate journalists are not unusual in Morocco, and as Mansouri’s story demonstrates, the government of King Mohammed VI can be both cruel and creative in its efforts to silence dissenting voices. The kingdom ranks 135th out of 180 countries on Reporters Without Borders’ 2019 World Press Freedom Index, below nations like Afghanistan, Zimbabwe and the Philippines. Morocco was also named in a 2018 report from the Canadian Citizen Lab as a country where Pegasus spyware is used to track mobile phones of civil society activists.
Mansouri himself, a co-founder of the Moroccan Association of Investigative Journalists, had already been beaten up by strangers in September 2014 after leaving a meeting at a hotel with the Moroccan historian and prominent dissident Maâti Monjib. Even today, after 10 months in jail on adultery charges, two hunger strikes and three years in exile in France, Mansouri faces pending charges of threatening state security in Morocco. These stem from his involvement with StoryMaker, an app that helps citizen journalists create video reports based on events they witness.
Yet Mansouri remains undaunted. Now living in France, he blogs for the French online investigative and opinion site Mediapart and contributes to the Italian newspaper Caffe Dei Giornalisti as well as the online site of Maison des journalistes, a group that provides housing to journalists in exile. Mansouri spoke with Global Journalist’s Gaëlle Fournier about his imprisonment, his continuing legal troubles and life in exile. Below, an edited and translated version of their conversation:[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Hicham Mansouri was beaten up on September 24, 2014. (Photo: Ahmed Bensedik)
Global Journalist: Tell us about your journalism career.
Hicham Mansouri: I worked for a regional newspaper called Machahid in [the southern coastal city of] Agadir and then for the non-governmental organisations Free Press Unlimited and International Media Support in Rabat.
In 2009, I participated in an investigative journalism programme. With some colleagues, we decided to create a network of Moroccan investigative journalists. The association was recognised in 2011, two days after the Arab Spring began in Morocco. I was then programme director of the association, but now the association has ceased its activities. The website of the AMJI [Moroccan Association for Investigative Journalism] was hacked and replaced by pornographic content. We were censored and received threats.
GJ: How would you describe the environment for the press in Morocco?
Mansouri: Freedom of the press is differentiated geographically. If you’re living around Casablanca or [the capital] Rabat, more things are tolerated than they are in the countryside.
There are what is commonly called the three “red lines” in Morocco. These topics are likely to be censored: Islam, the monarchy and the issue of Western Sahara [a territory claimed by Morocco].
All independent newspapers that have addressed these issues have been punished by the authorities. Editors have been put in jail, so they cease their activities. There is a lot of self-censorship.
Some journalists are even in trouble for translating foreign articles into Arabic. Not many people read newspapers in Morocco as there is a high illiteracy rate. The journalists who get in trouble are [often] the broadcasters.
GJ: You spent 10 months in jail after being arrested for adultery and operating a brothel. This came right after you began investigating the electronic surveillance of journalists and activists, including yourself.
Mansouri: I was working on an investigative piece about electronic surveillance when I got arrested by the police in 2015. I’m not a cybersecurity specialist, but thanks to software, I found the IP addresses [of the cyber attacker]. They were protected by malware and I decided to investigate. I tried to delete the two addresses but found that they could not be deleted.
I found this strange, so I contacted the creator of the [security] software who indeed told me that there was something wrong.
Three days later, I was arrested. It was around 10am on a morning back in 2015. I was seeing a female friend and five minutes after she arrived, the police broke down the door of my apartment and forced me to undress.
They also tried to undress the woman in order to stage a scene showing us engaged in adultery. The police filmed the entire thing from the beginning.
At trial, we asked the police video be shown as proof of what happened, but they refused. They only showed pictures they took of me, almost naked, on my bed. They also said they found a used condom on the bed.
I had been assaulted a few months prior to this, so I was really paranoid. I found out later that I had been watched by the police for a few months prior to my arrest.
GJ: You were later jailed on the adultery charge. Tell us about your time behind bars.
Mansouri: It was very hard. I felt the invisible hand of repression and it followed me everywhere.
The first day in jail, I was thrown in a cell with [serious] criminals, while I should have been assigned to the what’s called Block A, which is reserved for first-time offenders like me. I was sent to Block D, which the inmates call “the trash,” the worst of all. The cell was overcrowded. I had to sleep on the floor in unsanitary conditions. Within a week I was infested with lice.
The worst was the violence I witnessed, including fights between inmates and self-harm. I even thought some of the fights were orchestrated to kill me.
I went on two hunger strikes, which eventually led the authorities to provide me with some books and newspapers and assign me to a block with inmates suspected of terrorism, who were watched by policemen.
I tried to survive and write about my memories in jail. This diary project is not so much about sharing my experience, it’s about telling the stories of the inmates I met, who came back from Syria, were tortured, used drugs. However, my experience in jail is not unique. It is one all activists and journalists [jailed in Morocco] have to go through.
Hicham Mansouri being welcomed out of the prison by his friend and colleague Maâti Monjib, who was nominated for an Index on Censorship Award for Campaigning in 2017. Monjib, a historian and writer, along Hicham Mansouri and five other journalists, is accused of endangering Moroccan state security. Their trial has been postponed 14 times since its start in 2015.
GJ: Even though you’re in France, you still face trial in Morocco on “suspicion of endangering state security” along with six co-defendants. This charge was also brought against you in 2015 and the trial has been postponed 14 times.
Mansouri: It began with a citizen journalism project called StoryMaker, created in partnership with Free Press Unlimited and The Guardian. We are officially accused of falsifying videos and photos with this app, which we created to be a reporting tool for citizens.
The authorities told me that “investigation” is the work of the police, not the media. We are even accused of spying and diverting funds from state-owned media. There is no evidence for any of this.
Every time there is a hearing [in Rabat], the file is not even open and the trial is postponed to another date. It’s like the sword of Damocles. Before, we used to defend our innocence. But now we just want the matter brought before a judge for a decision, whether it’s for or against us.
GJ: Even after you were jailed, you did a major environmental investigation. What did you find?
Mansouri: In 2016, I did an investigation about Morocco importing 2,500 tons of toxic industrial waste from Italy. The toxic industrial waste was burnt to make cement in Morocco, something that is strictly forbidden in Europe.
Based on documents, it revealed the existence of indirect links between cement works owned by the king’s holding company and an international environmental business tied to the Italian mafia. It was published by the news site Lakome2, whose founder is actually being prosecuted for “sympathising with terrorism”.
GJ: How did you decide when was the right time to leave Morocco?
Mansouri: I made the decision to leave my country when I was in jail. I did not tell anyone. The physical and psychological torture I experienced led to my exile. My first day in prison, I had tachycardia [abnormally fast heartbeat], and I was beaten by a prison guard. I really felt suicidal. I felt like I was suffocating, not able to speak, to cry, to scream. I was ready to do anything to leave this hell.
I decided to leave Morocco when I learned that the judge who sent me to jail [for adultery] was also the one who was going to work on the state security case. I know how he proceeds and it did not portend anything good.
When I learned this, I had been in jail for six months. It was a nightmare. It was as if I was in a bottomless pit. Everything was dark. I could not bear staying five more years in jail when I could have spent those years studying for a PhD.
GJ: What are your plans for the future?
Mansouri: Living in exile is far from being easy. You have to start for scratch.
I was mostly busy over the past two years with my asylum application, which was a real obstacle course.
I’m now working on an observation project on hate speech in several countries of the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region like Jordan, Tunisia, Egypt for the NGO MENA Media Monitoring. We have published two reports so far. I continue to fight for what is happening in Morocco, I keep on testifying to show the truth. I’m publishing from time to time articles on my Mediapart blog. I’m also finishing my master’s in political science[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/6BIZ7b0m-08″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Index on Censorship partner Global Journalist is a website that features global press freedom and international news stories as well as a weekly radio program that airs on KBIA, mid-Missouri’s NPR affiliate, and partner stations in six other states. The website and radio show are produced jointly by professional staff and student journalists at the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, the oldest school of journalism in the United States. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Don’t lose your voice. Stay informed.” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_separator color=”black”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Index on Censorship is a nonprofit that campaigns for and defends free expression worldwide. We publish work by censored writers and artists, promote debate, and monitor threats to free speech. We believe that everyone should be free to express themselves without fear of harm or persecution – no matter what their views.
Join our mailing list (or follow us on Twitter or Facebook). We’ll send you our weekly newsletter, our monthly events update and periodic updates about our activities defending free speech. We won’t share, sell or transfer your personal information to anyone outside Index.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][gravityform id=”20″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”false”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content”][vc_column][three_column_post title=”Global Journalist / Project Exile” full_width_heading=”true” category_id=”22142″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
01 Jul 19 | Awards, Fellowship 2020, Press Releases
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”107432″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]
- La Beca de los Premios reconoce el trabajo de periodistas, militantes, activistas digitales y artistas que luchan contra la censura a nivel global
- Los/as becados/as reciben asistencia en diversos ámbitos durante un año
- Envía tu nominación: indexoncensorship.org/nominations
- Las nominaciones están abiertas del 1 al 31 de julio de 2019
- #IndexAwards2020
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This press release is also available in Arabic, Chinese, English, Portuguese, Russian[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Ya están abiertas las nominaciones a las Becas de los Premios a la Libertad de Expresión de Index on Censorship. Los premios, que cumplen su vigésimo año de andadura, reconocen el trabajo de algunos de los héroes y heroínas de la libertad de expresión más notables del mundo.
En 2020 se cumplirán 20 años de los Premios a la Libertad de Expresión, que suman 87 galardones en total desde su fundación. En 2015, Index expandió los Premios al incluir un programa de becas, con el objeto de apoyar y abogar por las causas de 22 becados/as en su labor de lucha por la libertad de expresión en todas las partes del mundo.
La Beca de los Premios busca ofrecer asistencia a activistas internacionales a todos los niveles. Entre los y las ganadoras de otros años se cuentan Wendy Funes, periodista de investigación hondureña; el caricaturista sirio Ali Farzat; Malala Yousafzai, activista pakistaní por la educación; el periodista de investigación saudí Safa Al Ahmad y Zanele Muholi, fotógrafa sudafricana de temas LGTBI.
Index invita al público, a organizaciones cívicas sociales, a grupos sin ánimo de lucro y a los medios de comunicación a nominar a cualquier individuo u organización cuyo trabajo haciendo frente a la censura consideren merecedor de reconocimiento y apoyo.
Ofrecemos cuatro becas, una por cada categoría de las cuatro siguientes:
- Artes: para artistas y productores/as artísticos/as cuyo trabajo cuestiona la represión y la injusticia y celebra la libre expresión artística. Podría tratarse de artistas visuales, músicos/as, caricaturistas, escritores/as creativos/as, tanto individuos como colectivos.
- Militancia: para activistas y militantes que han tenido un impacto notable en la lucha contra la censura y el fomento de la libertad de expresión sobre el terreno. Puede tratarse de individuos u organizaciones.
- Activismo digital: para tecnologías pioneras que sortean la censura y permiten un intercambio de información libre e independiente. Podría ser una nueva app, una herramienta digital o algún tipo de software.
- Periodismo: para el periodismo valiente y decidido que pone en evidencia la censura y las amenazas a la libre expresión y exige el acceso a la información. Podrían ser bloggers, canales de noticias u organizaciones de investigación sin ánimo de lucro.
Todas las personas y colectivos ganadores se convierten en Becados Premiados y reciben 12 meses de orientación, oportunidades de hacer contactos y apoyo estratégico. El año comienza con una residencia de una semana en Londres (abril de 2020) con todos los gastos pagados, durante la cual acudirán a talleres, sesiones de formación y eventos públicos. A lo largo de todo el año, Index trabaja con los/as becados/as para mejorar considerablemente el impacto, el perfil y la sostenibilidad de su trabajo.
Jodie Ginsberg, directora ejecutiva de Index, dice: «Los Premios a la Libertad de Expresión han servido de escaparate para algunos de los defensores de la libre expresión más audaces e ignorados de los últimos 20 años. Hemos querido reconocer la labor de grupos e individuos que han aupado la liberta de expresión, a menudo encarando enormes obstáculos y graves peligros. Estos últimos años hemos expandido el programa de los premios para incluir las becas que ayudan a las personas ganadoras a amplificar sus esfuerzos por medio de apoyo y formación especializada. Usa tu voz para nominar a un defensor o defensora de la libre expresión y asegurarte de se oiga la suya».
La lista de finalistas de los premios de 2020 se anunciará a principios de año. Las becas las seleccionará un jurado de personalidades del campo y se anunciarán en una ceremonia en Londres en abril de 2020. Las nominaciones están abiertas del 1 al 31 de julio de 2019 hasta las 5 de la tarde, hora de Reino Unido.
En 2001 se fundaron los Premios a la Libertad de Expresión para fomentar la visibilidad de los individuos y organizaciones que se dedicaban a defender la libertad de expresión por todo el globo.
Para saber más sobre los premios y la beca, ponte en contacto con Sean Gallagher: [email protected].
Acerca de las Becas de los Premios a la Libertad de Expresión
En 2020 se cumplirán 20 años de los Premios a la Libertad de Expresión, que suman 87 galardones en total desde su fundación. En 2015, Index expandió los Premios al incluir un programa de becas, con el objeto de apoyar y abogar por las causas de 22 becados/as en su labor de lucha por la libertad de expresión en todas las partes del mundo. Los y las ganadoras de la Beca de los Premios de 2020 disfrutarán de 12 meses de orientación, oportunidades de crear contactos y apoyo estratégico.
Acerca de Index on Censorship
Index on Censorship es una organización sin ánimo de lucro con sede en Londres que se dedica a publicar textos de escritores y artistas censurados y milita contra la censura alrededor del mundo. Desde su fundación en 1972, Index on Censorship ha publicado a algunos de los nombres más célebres de la literatura en su galardonada revista cuatrimestral; entre ellos, a Samuel Beckett, Nadine Gordimer, Mario Vargas Llosa, Arthur Miller o Kurt Vonnegut. También ha publicado a algunos de los mejores portavoces de campaña del mundo, desde Vaclav Havel hasta Elif Shafak.[/vc_column_text][vc_basic_grid post_type=”post” max_items=”4″ element_width=”6″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1561629474168-5717df82-3f0f-2″ taxonomies=”5692″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
01 Jul 19 | Awards, Fellowship 2020, News and features, Press Releases
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”107432″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]
- Награды присуждаются журналистам, гражданским активистам, интернет-активистам и деятелям искусства, которые борются с цензурой во всем мире
- Победители получают комплексную поддержку в течение года
- Номинироваться можно на сайте indexoncensorship.org/nominations
- Номинации открыты с 1 июля по 31 июля 2019 года
- #IndexAwards2020
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This press release is also available in Arabic, Chinese, English, Portuguese, Spanish[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Номинации на получение «Наград за свободу слова» от «Индекса цензуры» открыты. Сегодня, когда премии исполняется 20 лет, награды будут присуждены самым выдающимся героям в мире свободы слова.
В 2020 году исполняется 20 лет с начала вручения «Наград за свободу слова». За этот период были награждены 87 номинантов. С 2015 года «Индекс цензуры» расширил программу «Наград», включив в неё стажировку, поддержав и защитив 22 стипендиатов в их работе по защите свободы слова на международном уровне.
Присуждение стипендий направлено на поддержку активистов на всех уровнях и охватывает весь мир. Среди победителей прошлых лет – гондурасская журналистка-расследователь Венди Фунес, сирийский карикатурист Али Фарзат, пакистанская правозащитница в области образования Малала Юсуфзай, саудовская журналистка-расследователь Сафа Аль Ахмад и южноафриканская ЛГБТ-фотограф Занеле Мухоли.
«Индекс» предлагает широкой общественности, гражданским организациям, некоммерческим группам и СМИ номинировать тех (отдельных лиц или организации) кого, по их мнению, следует поощрять и поддерживать в их работе по борьбе с цензурой во всем мире.
Мы предлагаем четыре премии, по одной в каждой из следующих категорий:
- Искусство – премия для деятелей искусства и производителей культурного продукта, чьи работы бросают вызов репрессиям, несправедливости и прославляют свободу творчества. Сюда могут входить художники, музыканты, карикатуристы, творческие писатели – как в одиночку, так и коллективы.
- Организация кампаний – премия для активистов и борцов, которые оказали заметное влияние на борьбу с цензурой и содействие свободе слова на местах. Номинантами могут быть отдельные лица или организации.
- Цифровой активизм – премия за инновационные технологии, которые обходят цензуру, обеспечивая свободный и независимый обмен информацией. Они могут включать новые приложения, цифровые инструменты или программное обеспечение.
- Журналистика – премия смелым и решительным журналистам, разоблачающим цензуру, угрозы свободе слова и требующим доступа к информации. Номинантами могут быть блогеры, новостные агентства и некоммерческие организации, проводящие расследования.
Все победители становятся стипендиатами премии, предусматривающей 12 месяцев шефства, сетевого взаимодействия и стратегической поддержки. Год начинается с недельного проживания в оплаченной резиденции в Лондоне (апрель 2020 года) с одновременным участием в семинарах, тренингах и публичных мероприятиях. В течение года «Индекс» работает со стипендиатами, чтобы значительно повысить влияние, значимость и стабильность их работы.
Генеральный директор «Индекса» Джоди Гинсберг заявила: «На протяжении 20 лет «Награды за свободу слова» присуждаются самым бесстрашным и незамеченным другими защитникам свободы слова в мире. Мы стремились признать работу групп и отдельных лиц, которые расширили свободу слова, зачастую перед лицом огромных препятствий и серьезной опасности. В последние годы мы расширили программу «Наград», включив в нее стипендии, которые помогают победителям активизировать свои усилия посредством целевой поддержки и обучения. Используйте свой голос, определив борца за свободу слова, для того, чтобы их голос услышали».
Окончательный список кандидатов на премию 2020 года будет объявлен в начале того же года. Стипендиаты будут отобраны высокопрофессиональной судейской коллегией и объявлены на церемонии в Лондоне в апреле 2020 года. Номинации будут открыты с 1 июля 2019 года по 17:00 (британское летнее время) 31 июля 2019 года.
«Награды за свободу слова» были учреждены в 2001 году для повышения авторитета частных лиц и организаций, защищающих свободу слова во всем мире.
Для получения дополнительной информации о наградах и стипендии, пожалуйста, свяжитесь с Шоном Галлахером, [email protected].
О «Наградах за свободу слова»
В 2020 году исполняется 20 лет с начала вручения «Наград за свободу слова». За этот период были награждены 87 номинантов. С 2015 года «Индекс цензуры» расширил программу «Наград», включив в нее стажировку, поддержав и защитив 22 стипендиатов в их работе по защите свободы слова на международном уровне.
Обладатели «Наград за свободу слова» на 2020 год обретут 12-месячное шефство, сетевое взаимодействие и стратегическую поддержку. Больше информации
Об «Индексе Цензуры»
Индекс Цензуры является лондонской некоммерческой организацией, которая публикует работы писателей и деятелей искусства, подвергавшихся цензуре, и проводит кампании против цензуры по всему миру. С момента своего основания в 1972 году «Индекс Цензуры» опубликовал в своем отмеченном наградами ежеквартальном журнале несколько величайших имен в литературе, в том числе Сэмюэля Беккета, Надин Гордимер, Марио Варгаса Льоса, Артура Миллера и Курта Воннегута. Он также опубликовал работы лучших в мире писателей-активистов от Вацлава Гавела до Элиф Шафак.[/vc_column_text][vc_basic_grid post_type=”post” max_items=”4″ element_width=”6″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1561623235810-57f8b91f-a877-2″ taxonomies=”5692″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
01 Jul 19 | Awards, Fellowship 2020, Press Releases
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”107432″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]•该奖项旨在奖励全球反对审查制度的记者、活动家、数字活动家和艺术家
•获奖者将得到为期一年的综合援助支持
•请在indexoncensorship.org/nominations网站提名
•提名于2019年7月1日至7月31日期间开放
•#IndexAwards2020[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This press release is also available in Arabic, English, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]“审查目录”言论自由奖提名现已开放。该奖项已有二十年历史，旨在表彰世界上最杰出之捍卫言论自由英雄。
2020年将迎来言论自由奖二十周年庆，多年来共有87杰出人士位获奖者。自2015年来“审查目录”已扩大奖项计划，支持22名获奖者在国际间开展捍卫言论自由的工作。
该奖项旨在支持世界各地各阶层活动家。历年获奖者包括洪都拉斯调查记者Wendy Funes，叙利亚漫画家Ali Farzat、巴基斯坦教育活动家马拉拉（Malala Yousafzai）、沙特阿拉伯调查记者Safa Al Ahmad和南非LGBTI摄影师Zanele Muholi。
“审查目录”诚挚邀请公众、公民社会组织、非营利组织和媒体组织提名在全球范围内反对审查制度中应得到表彰和支持的任何个人或组织。
我们在以下四个领域各提供一个奖项：
•艺术创作：包括艺术家和艺术出品人，他们的作品挑战压迫和不公并倡导艺术自由表达。该提名可包括视觉艺术家、音乐家、漫画家及创意作家。个人或创作集体均可提名。
•活动家：旨在奖励为在反对审查制度和促进当地言论自由方面产生显着影响的活动家和活动人士开展活动。个人或组织提名均可。
•数字行动：旨在奖励为研发开创性技术以绕过审查制度从而实现信息自由和独立交流。提名包含手机应用程序，数字工具或软件。
•新闻工作：旨在奖励勇敢和坚定的新闻报道，揭露审查制度同言论自由所受威胁，要求信息公开。提名包括博客作家、新闻媒体和调查性非营利组织。
所有获奖者都将得到为期12个月的指导，网络及战略支持。获奖者将于年初（2020年4月）受邀参加于伦敦举办为期一周的研讨会、培训及公众活动，期间住宿及其他相关费用由主办方提供。在这一年中，“审查目录”将与获奖者深入合作以提升其工作的影响力、形象及可持续性。
“审查目录”公司首席执行官朱迪·金斯伯格表示：“言论自由奖向世界展示了20年来最无畏、最未被颂扬的言论自由捍卫者。我们试图褒奖那些推动言论自由的团体和个人的工作，他们往往承受巨大的困难及危险。近年来，我们扩大了奖项计划，给予获奖者有针对性的支持和培训来扩大他们的影响。用您的声音提名言论自由奖以确保他们的声音被世人听到。”
2020年奖项候选名单将于2020年初公布。获奖者将由一个高规格的评审小组选出，并于2020年4月在伦敦举行的颁奖仪式上宣布。提名将于2019年7月1日至2019年7月31日下午五时英国标准时间开放。
言论自由奖于2001年启动，旨在提升全球捍卫言论自由的个人和组织的形象。
有关奖项及更多相关信息，请联系Sean Gallagher，电子邮件：[email protected]
关于言论自由奖
2020年将迎来言论自由奖二十周年庆，多年来共有87位获奖者获奖。自2015年来“审查目录”已扩大奖项计划，支持22名获奖者在国际间开展捍卫言论自由的工作。 2020年度获奖者都将获得为期12个月的指导，网络及战略支持。更多信息
关于“审查目录”
“审查目录”是一家总部位于伦敦的非营利组织，负责发表被禁作家和艺术家的作品及反对全球审查制度的活动。自1972年成立以来，“审查目录”在其屡获殊荣的季刊中发表了世界著名文学家的作品，包括萨缪尔·贝克特、纳丁·戈迪默、马里奥·巴尔加斯·略萨、亚瑟·米勒和库尔特·冯内古特。并出版了从哈维尔到埃利夫·沙法克等世界世界知名政论作家的作品。[/vc_column_text][vc_basic_grid post_type=”post” max_items=”4″ element_width=”6″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1561629762313-dbe157f7-2b2b-0″ taxonomies=”5692″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
01 Jul 19 | Awards, Fellowship, Fellowship 2020, Press Releases
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”فتح باب الترشيحات لجوائز زمالة حرية التعبير المُقدمة من منظمة “مؤشر الرقابة“ لعام 2020″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:right” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”20 عاماً من الشجاعة – 87 بطلاً” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:right” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]
فتح باب الترشيحات لجوائز زمالة حرية التعبير المُقدمة من منظمة “مؤشر الرقابة” لعام 2020
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-file-pdf-o” color=”black” background_style=”rounded” size=”xl” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indexoncensorship.org%2Fnewsite02may%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F06%2FIndexAwards2020-Arabic.pdf|||”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”107432″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]
تُمنح جوائز الزمالة لتكريم الصحفيين ومُنظمي الحملات والناشطين الرقميين والفنانين الذين يكافحون ضد الرقابة على مستوى العالم
يحصل الزملاء على حزمة مساعدات لمدة عام
موقع الترشيح: indexoncensorship.org/nominations
باب الترشيحات مفتوح من 1 إلى 31 تموز/يوليو 2019
#IndexAwards2020
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]This press release is also available in Chinese, English, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]
فُتح باب الترشيحات لجوائز زمالة حرية التعبير المُقدمة من منظمة “مؤشر الرقابة”. وتُمنح الجوائز الآن في عامها العشرين لتكريم بعض من أشهر أبطال حرية التعبير في العالم.
سوف يوافق عام 2020 مرور 20 عاماً على بداية جوائز حرية التعبير التي حصل عليها 87 فائزاً على مر السنين. ومنذ عام 2015، وسعت المنظمة نطاق برنامج الجوائز ليشمل جوائز الزمالة، من أجل دعم ومناصرة 22 زميلاً فيما يقومون به من عمل دفاعاً عن حرية التعبير على الصعيد الدولي.
وتسعى جوائز الزمالة إلى دعم الناشطين على جميع المستويات وفي كل بقاع العالم. ومن الفائزين السابقين: الصحفية الاستقصائية الهندوراسية ويندي فونيس، ورسام الكاريكاتير السوري علي فرزات، والباكستانية الناشطة في مجال التعليم مالالا يوسفزاي، والصحفية الاستقصائية السعودية صفاء الأحمد، والفنانة زانيلي موهولي وهي مصورة مجتمع الميم (LGBTI) في جنوب أفريقا.
وتدعو المنظمة عامة الناس ومنظمات المجتمع المدني والمجموعات غير الربحية والمؤسسات الإعلامية إلى ترشيح أي شخص (أفراد أو منظمات) يعتقدون أنه ينبغي تكريمه ودعم ما يقوم به من عمل في مجال التصدي للرقابة بجميع أنحاء العالم.
وتقدم المنظمةُ زمالةً في كل فئة من الفئات الأربع التالية:
فئة الفنون: للفنانين والمنتجين الفنيين الذين يتحدى عملهم القمع والظلم ويُمجِّد حرية التعبير الفني. وتشمل هذه الفئة الفنانين التشكيليين، والموسيقيين، ورسامي الكاريكاتير، والكتاب المبدعين، سواء أكان عملهم فردياً أو جماعياً.
فئة الحملات: للناشطين ومنظمي الحملات الذين كان لهم تأثير ملحوظ في مكافحة الرقابة والنهوض بحرية التعبير على أرض الواقع، سواء أكانوا أفراداً أو منظمات.
فئة النشاط الرقمي: لمُبتكري التكنولوجيات الرائدة التي تتغلب على الرقابة مما يسمح بالتبادل الحر والمستقل للمعلومات. وتشمل هذه الفئة التطبيقات أو الأدوات الرقمية أو البرمجيات الجديدة.
فئة الصحافة: للصحافة الشجاعة والعنيدة التي تفضح الرقابة وتهديدات حرية التعبير، وتنادي بإتاحة المعلومات. وتشمل هذه الفئة المُدوِّنين، والمنافذ الإخبارية، والمنظمات الاستقصائية غير الربحية.
وسوف يحصل جميع الفائزين بجوائز الزمالة على 12 شهراً من الإرشاد والتواصل الشبكي والدعم الاستراتيجي. وتبدأ تلك السنة بإقامة مدفوعة بالكامل لمدة أسبوع في لندن (نيسان/أبريل 2020) بالإضافة إلى ورش عمل وتدريبات وفعاليات عامة. وتعمل المنظمة مع الزملاء على مدار تلك السنة لتعزيز تأثير أعمالهم ومكانتها واستدامتها بدرجة كبيرة.
وفي هذا الصدد، قالت جودي غينسبرغ، الرئيسة التنفيذية للمنظمة: “إن جوائز حرية التعبير تسلّط الضوء منذ 20 عاماً على بعضٍ من أشجع المغمورين المدافعين عن حرية التعبير في العالم. وكان سعينا يهدف إلى الإشادة بعمل الجماعات والأفراد الذين عززوا حرية التعبير، غالباً في مواجهة عقبات هائلة وخطر عظيم. وقمنا، في السنوات الأخيرة، بتوسيع نطاق برنامج الجوائز ليشمل زمالات تساعد الفائزين على تكثيف جهودهم من خلال الدعم والتدريب المُوَجَّهين. فعليكم بالتصويت لترشيح بطل من أبطال حرية التعبير للتأكد من إسماع صوته.”
سوف يُعلن عن القائمة القصيرة لجوائز 2020 في أوائل عام 2020. وسوف تتولى لجنة تحكيم رفيعة المستوى اختيار الزملاء، وسوف يُعلن عن أسماء الفائزين في لندن في حفل سيُقام في شهر نيسان/أبريل 2020. وسوف يُفتح باب الترشيحات من 1 تموز/يوليو 2019 حتى الخامسة مساءً بالتوقيت البريطاني الصيفي يوم 31 تموز/يوليو 2019.
أُطلقت جوائز حرية التعبير في عام 2001 لتكريم المدافعين عن حرية التعبير على الصعيد العالمي من الأفراد والمنظمات.
لمزيد من المعلومات عن الجوائز والزمالات، يُرجى التواصل مع شون غالاغر (Sean Gallagher)، [email protected].
نبذة عن زمالات جوائز حرية التعبير
سيُحتفل في عام 2020 بمرور 20 عاماً على انطلاق جوائز حرية التعبير التي حصل عليها 87 فائزاً على مر السنين. ومنذ عام 2015، وسعت المنظمة نطاق برنامج الجوائز ليشمل جوائز الزمالة، من أجل دعم ومناصرة 22 زميلاً فيما يقومون به من عمل دفاعاً عن حرية التعبير على الصعيد الدولي. سيحصل الفائزون بجوائز الزمالة لعام 2020 على 12 شهراً من الإرشاد والتواصل الشبكي والدعم الاستراتيجي. مزيد من المعلومات
نبذة عن منظمة “مؤشر الرقابة“
مؤشر الرقابة (Index on Censorship) هي منظمة غير ربحية تتخذ من لندن مقراً لها، وتنشر أعمالاً لكتاب وفنانين خاضعين للرقابة وحملات مناهضة للرقابة في جميع أنحاء العالم. نشرت المنظمة منذ تأسيسها في عام 1972 أعمالاً لبعض أعلام الأدب في مجلتها الفصلية الحائزة على جوائز، ومنهم صمويل بيكيت، ونادين غورديمر، وماريو فارغاس يوسا، وأرثر ميلر، وكورت فونيغوت. كما نشرت أعمالاً لبعض من أفضل كتاب الحملات في العالم بدءاً من فاتسلاف هافيل إلى أليف شفاك.
[/vc_column_text][vc_basic_grid post_type=”post” max_items=”4″ element_width=”6″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1561623900944-48493a29-8f1d-3″ taxonomies=”5692″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
01 Jul 19 | Awards, Fellowship 2020, News and features, Press Releases
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”107432″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]
- Awards Fellowship honours journalists, campaigners, digital activists and artists fighting censorship globally
- Fellows receive a year-long package of assistance
- Nominate at indexoncensorship.org/nominations
- Public nominations are open from 1 July to 31 July 2019
- #IndexAwards2020
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]This press release is also available in Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Nominations for the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards Fellowship are open. Now in their 20th year, the Awards honour some of the world’s most remarkable free expression heroes.
2020 will mark 20 years of the Freedom of Expression Awards, with 87 winners awarded over the years. Since 2015, Index has expanded the Awards programme to include the Awards Fellowship, supporting and championing 22 fellows in their work defending freedom of expression internationally.
The Awards Fellowship seeks to support activists at all levels and spans the world. Past winners include Honduran investigative journalist Wendy Funes, Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat, Pakistani education campaigner Malala Yousafzai, Saudi investigative journalist Safa Al Ahmad and South African LGBTI photographer Zanele Muholi.
Index invites the general public, civil society organisations, non-profit groups and media organisations to nominate anyone (individuals or organisations) who they believe should be celebrated and supported in their work tackling censorship worldwide.
We are offering four fellowships, one in each of the following categories:
- Arts for artists and arts producers whose work challenges repression, injustice and celebrates artistic free expression. This could include visual artists, musicians, cartoonists, creative writers, whether solo or collectives.
- Campaigning for activists and campaigners who have had a marked impact in fighting censorship and promoting free expression on the ground. This could include individuals or organisations.
- Digital Activism for ground-breaking technology that circumvents censorship enabling the free and independent exchange of information. This could include new apps, digital tools or software.
- Journalism for courageous and determined journalism that exposes censorship, threats to free expression and demands access to information. This could include bloggers, news outlets and investigative nonprofits.
All winners become Awards Fellows who receive 12 months of mentorship, networking and strategic support. The year commences with a week-long, all-expenses-paid residential in London (April 2020) with workshops, training and public events. Over the course of the year, Index works with the fellows to significantly enhance the impact, profile and sustainability of their work.
Jodie Ginsberg, CEO of Index, said: “The Freedom of Expression Awards have showcased some of the world’s most fearless and unsung defenders of free expression for 20 years. We’ve sought to recognise the work of groups and individuals who have enhanced freedom of expression, often in the face of immense obstacles and great danger. In recent years, we’ve expanded the Awards programme to include fellowships that help winners amplify their efforts through targeted support and training. Use your voice by nominating a free expression champion to make sure their voice is heard.”
The 2020 Awards shortlist will be announced in early 2020. The fellows will be selected by a high profile panel of judges and announced in London at a ceremony in April 2020. Nominations will be open from 1 July 2019 to 5pm BST 31 July 2019.
The Freedom of Expression Awards were launched in 2001 to raise the profile of individuals and organisations that were defending freedom of expression globally.
For more information on the Awards and Fellowship, please contact Sean Gallagher, [email protected].
About the Freedom of Expression Awards Fellowship
2020 will mark 20 years of the Freedom of Expression Awards, with 87 winners honoured over the years. Since 2015, Index has expanded the Awards programme to include the Awards Fellowship, supporting and championing 22 fellows in their work defending freedom of expression internationally. Winners of the 2020 Awards Fellowship will receive 12 months of mentorship, networking and strategic support. More information
About Index on Censorship
Index on Censorship is a London-based non-profit organisation that publishes work by censored writers and artists and campaigns against censorship worldwide. Since its founding in 1972, Index on Censorship has published some of the greatest names in literature in its award-winning quarterly magazine, including Samuel Beckett, Nadine Gordimer, Mario Vargas Llosa, Arthur Miller and Kurt Vonnegut. It also has published some of the world’s best campaigning writers from Vaclav Havel to Elif Shafak.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]This press release is also available in Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_basic_grid post_type=”post” max_items=”4″ element_width=”6″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1561623587103-71ce28d9-6c09-8″ taxonomies=”5692″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
