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1 month ago | 
indexoncensorship.org | Katie Dancey-Downs |Sarah Dawood |Emma Briant |Georgia Beeston
Today, my son trotted off to school in a hastily assembled knight-doctor-dragon combo, firmly taking on his role as the knight from Zog, whose name I can never get right. Sir Galahad? Sir Gallopalong? Ah yes, Sir Gadabout. This was his first World Book Day, and as a book-loving writer mum, it was quite the moment.
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2 months ago | 
indexoncensorship.org | Katie Dancey-Downs |Raina Lipsitz |Georgia Beeston
Index on Censorship is alarmed by the arrest and ongoing detention of author Mahmoud Muna, owner and bookseller of Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop. The Educational Bookshop specialises in Arabic and English language books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the history of Jerusalem. Mahmoud and his nephew Ahmad Muna were arrested in the bookshop by undercover Israeli police on the afternoon of Sunday, 9 February 2025.
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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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Jan 17, 2025 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Daisy Ruddock |Georgia Beeston
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. Thank you to everyone who took part and we have chosen five people at random from those who entered to win a year's print subscription to Index on Censorship magazine.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Daisy Ruddock |Georgia Beeston
Our Freedom of Expression Awards recognise those on the frontline of free expression and whose work has contributed significantly to confronting censorship – specifically in repressive regimes around the world. In recent years, award recipients of these prestigious awards have included Toomaj Salehi, Malala Yosafzai, Cartoon Rights Network, and Abdelrahman ‘Moka’ Tarek. See all previous winners here.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Daisy Ruddock |Georgia Beeston
Last month’s official confirmation that Saudi Arabia has been chosen as the host of the 2034 World Cup is evidence that sport has a long way to go when it comes to the protection of human rights and freedoms. Saudi Arabia’s acquisition of the most prestigious competition in international football is just the state’s latest foray into the sporting world.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Georgia Beeston |Maha Ghazal
What do you do when your culture has been destroyed? When your studios, galleries, and universities all lie in rubble? How do you plan to rebuild when war continues? And how do you find hope amidst utter devastation? These were some of the questions asked during Archiving Gaza in the Present, a two-day conference held at SOAS University by the Arab British Centre and the Centre for Palestinian Studies in December.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Georgia Beeston
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.
