Twenty years ago this week, Chinese students began their occupation of Tiananmen Square, a protest that ended in a massacre. In an exclusive extract from the next issue of Index on Censorship, Wang Dan, a leading figure in the 1989 movement, talks to writer Xinran about the fallout and the legacy
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Sir Ken Macdonald QC, Former Director of Public Prosecutions, has joined the board of Index on Censorship.
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Index on Censorship Chief Executive John Kampfner was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row recently, discussing the last years of the Eastern Bloc.
You can listen to the show here
Over at Liberty Central, coinciding with the imminent launch of Index on Censorship‘s new issue on obscenity, Mediawatch’s John Beyer and Index on Censorship regular Julian Petley are debating Britain’s obscenity laws. Are they obscure? Are they absurd? Are they in any way justified?