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Jul 19, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Francis Clarke |Flo Marks |John Joseph Merlin
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Martin Bright |Francis Clarke
As we celebrate the 80th anniversary of D-Day today, it is worth remembering that for one part of the British Isles the events have something of a bitter taste. As thousands of Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy on 6 June 1944, the residents of the Channel Islands, occupied by the Nazis for nearly four years, could have been forgiven for thinking their liberation was near.
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May 31, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Ruth Anderson |Francis Clarke
Your Excellencies,Ahead of and during the upcoming 56th Session of the Human Rights Council, we urge you and your delegation to raise concerns over the human rights situation in Bahrain, particularly regarding the continued arbitrary detention of human rights defenders and opposition leaders in Bahrain, many of whom have been wrongfully imprisoned since 2011.
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May 24, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Ruth Anderson |Francis Clarke
“The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a goal can be attained perpetually frustrates human beings, who are disappointed at never getting there, never being able to stop.”Stephen Spender, poet and co-founder of Index on CensorshipSometimes it is wise to follow the advice of a great.
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May 22, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Francis Clarke |Ruth Anderson |Yassmin Abdel-Magied
“We are all born free. We all have our own thoughts and ideas, and we should all be treated the same way.”These words form the first article of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Adopted on 10 December 1948, the document was created to outline and protect every human’s basic right after the bloodshed of the Second World War. At the same time, George Orwell was completing his classic dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four; published the following year.
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May 9, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Ruth Anderson |Francis Clarke
On 24 April 2024 Iranian songwriter and rapper, Toomaj Salehi, was sentenced to death for using his voice and his music to call out the human rights abuses of the Iranian regime. Salehi’s death sentence is the culmination of three years of judicial harassment, including arrest, imprisonment and torture. His persecution has intensified since the 2022-23 protests in Iran. These protests, which Salehi supported, followed Mahsa Amini’s death while in the custody of the morality police.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Andrej Januskevic |Francis Clarke |Daisy Ruddock
In November 2023, the current chief executive of Index on Censorship, Ruth Anderson, informed the Board that it was her intention to step down from her position in 2024 at the prominent freedom of expression charity. Ruth joined Index on Censorship in 2020 and has played a pivotal role in advancing the freedom of expression charity’s objectives, stabilising its finances and extending its campaign reach around the world.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Andrej Januskevic |Francis Clarke |Daisy Ruddock |Ruth Anderson
Januskevic Publishing House opened for business in Belarus in 2014 with the aim of publishing history books. The initial euphoria of launching a business passed very quickly. At first, issues related to the publishing industry more broadly. It became clear that you can’t live in Belarus only publishing history books – diversification of production was required. So we diversified into e-books and then to the publication of fiction, translations from foreign languages and children’s books.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Francis Clarke |Ruth Anderson |Mark Stimpson |William Yang
If Rizal Van Geyzel’s life has felt like a comedic farce recently, it’s best physically exemplified by the black paint that was splattered not across the door of his comedy club, but of the bank next door. “They vandalised the wrong door! The bank’s CCTV picked it up. If you are going to throw paint over a door, at least pick the right one,” he laughs.
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Ruth Anderson |Daisy Ruddock |Mark Stimpson |Francis Clarke
Should I stay or should I go…If I go there will be trouble – but if I stay it will be double. I never thought I’d start a blog by using the lyrics of a Clash song, but occasionally needs must or rather Musk…Since Elon Musk bought Twitter (now X) in October 2022 I think many of us have been holding our breath, waiting to see what the impact on the platform was going to be. And most importantly where his lines were going to fall on free speech versus hate speech and misinformation versus propaganda.
