Venezuela: a blueprint for tackling a rigged election
Martin Bright has over 30 years of experience as a journalist, working for the Observer, the Guardian and the New Statesman among others. He has worked on several high-profile freedom of expression cases often involving government secrecy.
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2025年1月14日 · Index on Censorship is the voice of free expression. We publish censored writers and artists, promote debate, monitor threats to freedom of speech.
Celebrating the music of Toomaj Salehi - Index on Censorship
For many of us, specifically those who have experienced prison, Toomaj Salehi is the symbol of resistance against an autocratic regime’s oppression, and whose honest and unapologetic voice cuts through the sheer reality of a society suffering from repression and corruption.. To us, condemning Salehi to death for his songs and lyrics is the …
The 2024 Freedom of Expression Awards - Index on Censorship
2024年11月20日 · Evgenia Kara-Murza Trustees award winner. Evgenia Kara-Murza is Advocacy Director of Free Russia Foundation, activist, translator and wife of political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza, twice-poisoned Russian opposition leader, imprisoned on 11 April 2022 for protesting Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Contents – Unsung heroes: How musicians are raising their voices ...
Contents. Music has been described as a “cultural universal” – a practice found in all known human cultures and societies. While anthropologists still scratch their heads over exactly where the concept originated, evidence indicates that humans have used musical instruments for an astonishing 40,000 years.
The most ridiculous book bans - Index on Censorship
Banned Books Week is here once again. And so too are more stories of books being censored across the world. This week, Pen America reported that the number of book bans in public schools has nearly tripled in 2023-24 from the previous school year. While the week-long Banned Books Week event, supported by a coalition including Index on Censorship, looks largely towards bans in the USA, we’re ...
Contents – Inconvenient truths: How scientists are being silenced ...
Contents. Ever since Galileo Galilei faced the Roman inquisition in the 17th century for proving that the Earth went round the sun, scientists have risked being ruthlessly silenced.
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6 天之前 · Index on Censorship publishes an award-winning quarterly magazine that has featured some of the world’s best-known writers. We publish original creative writing and articles about free expression from across the globe. Our website offers additional information to help people understand the current threats to free expression globally.
Boualem Sansal faces life imprisonment if found guilty of national ...
In 2012, the Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal wrote an article for Index about his controversial visit to Israel, where he was inspired by an encounter with the writer David Grossman to launch the Strasbourg Appeal for Peace. “I muse how wonderful it would be if the writers of the world came together to fight for peace,” he wrote. The article, A Nightmare with a …
The show must go on - Index on Censorship
We knew it was coming. It was 28 November 2021, and I was meeting my friend Ravish for the first time in nearly 20 months. Because of Covid I had been working from home since March 2020; a home that was 660km away from Delhi.