Decolonisation in name only: Sedition and free expression in India
What connects cricket fans, protesters and journalists in India?They have all fallen foul of India’s outdated sedition law. According to the Indian watchdog, Article 14, between 2010 and 2021, 13,000 people have been charged with sedition.When the conviction rate for concluded cases remains low – approximately 0.1% – and those accused of …
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.
Living in gangster times - Index on Censorship
On 25 June this year 40-year-old journalist Shivshankar Jha was returning to his home in Muzaffarpur, in the eastern frontier state of Bihar, when he was set upon by a group of men.
A big week to remember - Index on Censorship
Index held its annual awards on Wednesday, the biggest night in its organisational calendar. This year another crop of amazing individuals enter the Index fold and we pledge to do as much as possible to help them fight oppression (whilst not forgetting about our previous winners – we will free Toomaj Salehi). I want the names of the 2024 winners to …
Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi released from prison
Iranian hip-hop artist and rapper Toomaj Salehi, who has been released following an international campaign by Doughty Street Chambers, Index on Censorship and Human Rights Foundation
Why Project 2025 is a threat to a free media - Index on Censorship
Reframing the US government’s relationship with the media and placing free speech and democracy in the firing line is at the heart of Project 2025, the 922-page policy plan supported by over 400 conservatives and led by the Heritage Foundation thinktank.. Contributed to by more than 100 of Donald Trump’s former administration officials, the document lays out a comprehensive vision for the ...
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 painful death of Syria’s independent media
Media freedom has been slowly dying in Syria since the Arab Spring, suffocated by a lack of regular funding and poor governance. The rise of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party and Hafez al-Assad’s coup in 1970 led to state dominance over all its institutions, resulting in a media monopoly that supports the regime.
Science in Iran: A catalyst for corruption - Index on Censorship
Dec 6, 2024 · Iran, a country that in its distant past played a significant role in the development of knowledge and laid the foundations upon which modern science now stands, has experienced a tremendous urge for scientific rebirth over the past century.