The Global Voice of Free Expression
Jan 14, 2025 · Index on Censorship is the voice of free expression. We publish censored writers and artists, promote debate, monitor threats to freedom of speech.
Rap is not a crime, yet my cousin remains behind bars in Iran
Rap is not a crime. Calling for human rights and democracy is not a crime. Standing up in solidarity with the courageous women who took to the streets to protest their rights is not a crime.
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.
How did you do in our banned books quiz? - Index on Censorship
6 days ago · Well that was harder than we imagined. For our 2024 year-end campaign, author Marc Nash came up up a banned books holiday quiz where he took the titles of 20 books that have been banned around the world and created cryptic clues to each of the titles.
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.
Awards 2024 campaigning winner Kuchu Times - Index on …
Today, Index on Censorship announces Palestinian lawyer and prison advocate, Kuchu Times as one of two winners of the 2024 Freedom of Expression Awards in the Campaigning category. The Campaigning category honours activists and campaigners who have had a marked impact in fighting censorship and promoting freedom of expression.
The dangers of boycotting Russian science - Index on Censorship
Mikhail Viktorovich Feigelman started working at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Moscow in 1980. Eleven years later, when the Soviet Union collapsed, funding and decent modern equipment were rare for Russian scientists but there was suddenly intellectual freedom.
The final cut: How cinema is being used to change the global …
The Summer 2024 issue of Index looks at how cinema is used as a tool to help shape the global political narrative by investigating who controls what we see on the screen and why they want us to see it.
The 2024 Freedom of Expression Awards - Index on Censorship
Nov 20, 2024 · 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.
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 …