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3 weeks ago | 
indexoncensorship.org | Danson S. Kahyana |Jemimah Steinfeld |Mackenzie Argent
In recent months, several young men and women in Uganda have been arrested and charged for views they expressed on TikTok. In the East African country, the freedom of expression landscape has deteriorated to the extent that one cannot hold a placard and march anywhere in support of a cause or in protest against an injustice.
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2 months ago | 
indexoncensorship.org | Sarah Dawood |Katie Dancey-Downs |Raina Lipsitz |Danson S. Kahyana
A young man plays a handmade tanbur (a long-necked lute) in Zaranj. Photo by Megapress Images / Alamy This article first appeared in Volume 53, Issue 4 of our print edition of Index on Censorship, titled Unsung Heroes: How musicians are raising their voices against oppression. Read more about the issue here. The issue was published on 12 December 2024.
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2 months ago | 
indexoncensorship.org | Katie Dancey-Downs |Raina Lipsitz |Georgia Beeston |Danson S. Kahyana
Iranian singer Golazin Ardestani wants to see the day when women can perform freely in Iran. Photo by Laetitia Dumez This article first appeared in Volume 53, Issue 4 of our print edition of Index on Censorship, titled Unsung Heroes: How musicians are raising their voices against oppression. Read more about the issue here. The issue was published on 12 December 2024.
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2 months ago | 
indexoncensorship.org | Raina Lipsitz |Georgia Beeston |Danson S. Kahyana |Mackenzie Argent
This article first appeared in Volume 53, Issue 4 of our print edition of Index on Censorship, titled Unsung Heroes: How musicians are raising their voices against oppression. Read more about the issue here. The issue was published on 12 December 2024. Big technology companies have enormous and outsized power. They control what information we can share and how, and demonstrate little transparency or accountability to users about what they are doing.
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2 months ago | 
indexoncensorship.org | Georgia Beeston |Danson S. Kahyana |Mackenzie Argent |Ian Wylie
On Wednesday, Index launched its latest magazine issue, Unsung Heroes, with an evening of powerful talks, poetry, and music from Joe Mulhall, Rahima Mahmut, Hanna Komar and Solá Akingbolá celebrating fearless musicians who use their voices to stand up to oppression. The event took place at The Jago in London, bringing together artists, activists, and an engaged audience to honour those who risk everything to make themselves heard.
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2 months ago | 
indexoncensorship.org | Danson S. Kahyana |Jemimah Steinfeld |Mackenzie Argent |Ruth Green
In Uganda, to be an opposition politician is to be a marked man or woman. You can be taken out of action at any time. This is one of the lessons that president Yoweri Museveni’s most formidable challenger – the popstar-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, popularly known as Bobi Wine – has learnt. In September, just weeks before talking to Index, Wine was taken to hospital after the police fired tear gas to disperse his supporters in the town of Bulindo, about 17km north of Kampala.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Georgia Beeston |Danson S. Kahyana |Mackenzie Argent |Ruth Green
Index CEO Jemimah Steinfeld (fourth from left) took part in the Council of Europe's Press Freedom Mission to Georgia The Mission of the Partner Organisations of the Council of Europe’s Safety of Journalists Platform and members of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) consortium have concluded a fact-finding mission to Georgia.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Danson S. Kahyana
Some Ugandans have welcomed the USA government's sanctions against some Ugandan leaders, among them the speaker of Uganda's parliament, Anita Among, and former deputy chief of Defence Forces, Lt. General Peter Elwelu. This might seem like a case of sadism on the part of those Ugandans who have thanked USA secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, for doing what the UK government had done a few months ago. The US included General Elwelu on its list of sanctioned leaders, and with good cause.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
mail.observer.ug | Danson S. Kahyana
Some Ugandans have welcomed the USA government’s sanctions against some Ugandan leaders, among them the speaker of Uganda’s parliament, Anita Among, and former deputy chief of Defence Forces, Lt. General Peter Elwelu.
This might seem like a case of sadism on the part of those Ugandans who have thanked USA secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, for doing what the UK government had done a few months ago. The US included General Elwelu on its list of sanctioned leaders, and with good cause.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
observer.ug | Danson S. Kahyana
At Harvard University, there are some conference series organised entirely by the students, of course with the help of the faculty.
I have attended two of these conferences – the Africa Health Conference organised by the students of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Africa Development Conference organized by the students of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), officially known as the John F.
