Index has looked at the countries taking part in arguably the biggest show on earth, and put together our own group of death — the freedom of expression edition
Against the backdrop of the World Cup in Brazil, we ask how, during global sporting events, should we respond to countries that repress their citizen’s free expression? Should we engage or ignore?
Insult laws can be very easily manipulated by those in positions of power to shut down and punish criticism
Poets, we all agree, are terribly misunderstood and undervalued. If it were not for poets, how would we know what things were like other things. How would we live! How would we love! How would we die!
Index on Censorship will bring some of Russia, Turkey and Azerbaijan’s foremost journalists and digital freedom advocates to Brussels. Join us to hear what has been happening on the frontlines in the Black Sea region and to consider what we should learn from these experiences?
Who limits access to information in the context of a search, and what it produces, continues to loom large. The right to know jousts with the entitlement to be invisible, writes Binoy Kampmark
For the last two decades the stubborn, powerful myth that the creative arts and the Protestant working class in Northern Ireland do not go together has been regularly proclaimed, Connal Parr writes
Belfast’s Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle is one of those things that makes a soft Southern Irish atheist Catholic like me think I’ll never truly understand Northern Ireland.
Last year, censorship occurred in connection with Here Together Now, an exhibition held at Matadero Madrid, Spain. Pelin Basaran and Banu Karaca report on the Turkish embassy’s involvement
Index on Censorship, (London, United Kingdom) and Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, (Rovereto, Italy) have launched mediafreedom.ushahidi.com, a website that will enable the reporting and mapping of media freedom violations across the 28 EU countries...