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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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3 weeks ago | 
indexoncensorship.org | Jemimah Steinfeld |Mackenzie Argent |Katie Dancey-Downs
I have a recurring nightmare: I somehow find myself in China. I’m having a great time until I realise I work at Index, might be on a blacklist, and could get arrested at any moment.
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3 weeks ago | 
indexoncensorship.org | Mackenzie Argent |Katie Dancey-Downs |Jemimah Steinfeld
In the age of online information, it can feel harder than ever to stay informed. As we get bombarded with news from all angles, important stories can easily pass us by. To help you cut through the noise, every Friday Index will publish a weekly news roundup of some of the key stories covering censorship and free expression from the past seven days. This week, we look at the detention of an Oscar Award-winning documentary maker and a poorly-monitored Signal group chat.
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2 months ago | 
indexoncensorship.org | Martin Bright |Mackenzie Argent |Raina Lipsitz
In the blizzard of announcements, statements and threats made by President Donald Trump’s administration over the past few weeks, those concerning public broadcasters should have a particular resonance for readers of Index on Censorship.
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2 months ago | 
indexoncensorship.org | Mackenzie Argent |Sarah Dawood |Katie Dancey-Downs
The second Donald Trump administration isn’t even a month old, and yet it seems as though the divisive president has already produced enough headlines to get us to the next election. With sweeping executive orders, massive cuts to federal departments and sights set on the contentious purchase of foreign lands, it’s hard to currently decipher the impact of his decisions and statements on the American people, and globally.
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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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Dec 19, 2024 | 
journals.sagepub.com | Mackenzie Argent |Jana Paliashchuk
MACKENZIE ARGENT talks to Belarusian dissident JANA PALIASHCHUK about turning lemons to lemonade through her poetryFOR 30 YEARS, Belarus has suffered under the rule of “Europe’s last dictator”, Alyaksandr Lukashenka. Many Belarusians have never known life outside of his regime, and with reports of voter suppression and Russian interference in elections earlier this year, the upcoming January 2025 presidential poll offers little hope of anything different.
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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.
