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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 28, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Clemence Manyukwe |Ruth Anderson
Two years ago, South Africa was named the most unequal country in the world in a World Bank report. This in a country where apartheid was dismantled 30 years ago. As the country goes to the polls on 29 May, inequality is proving to be at he heart of the debate which is stoking claims that freedom of expression is under threat.
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May 27, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Ruth Anderson |Martin Bright |Natalie Xu
回憶有罪 （香港組合達明一派為六四事件三十週年所創作的粵語歌。曲：劉以達; 詞：林夕）舊日或問天 怎允許摧毀信念 浩蕩像為了 被懷念現在別問他 可有膽公開紀念 被現實騎劫 怎怨天如燭光都有罪 將暗黑多幾十年 如傷疤都有靈 未變臉回憶即使有罪 真相怎麼敢無言 歷史假使有人 定被發現現在若問他 可悔當天走太前 道路腐壞了 不敢涉險現在若問我 怎會這麼想紀念 烈焰幻滅過 總有煙如燭光都有罪 將暗黑多幾十年 如傷疤都有靈 未變臉回憶即使有罪 真相怎麼敢無言 歷史假使有人 定被發現皇天不必答辯 只怕蒼生肯忘言 后土不知冷熱 生滅無念歷史只懂向前 輾轉反側三十年 如今滄桑少年 莫問蒼天若舉傘 為誰命運祭奠 廣場上 這麼多告別莫須有 是誰造就壯烈 願廣場上 聲音不會滅Memory Is A Crime(A Cantonese song by Anthony Wong written for the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Protests. Composer: Tats Lau.
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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 17, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Ruth Anderson |Yassmin Abdel-Magied
As the world looks on in horror at Russia’s aggression in Kharkiv and in despair at events in the Middle East it is easy to miss the detail of what is happening in other countries as political leaders move to censor as the democratic values that we hold increasingly feel under threat. This week we have seen an assassination attempt on the Slovakian Prime Minister and an attempted terror attack in Rouen. In Georgia, there are protests in the streets of the capital Tbilisi.
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May 13, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Hanan Zaffar |Yassmin Abdel-Magied |Ruth Anderson
A screengrab from a deepfake video featuring the late Indian politician H Vasanthakumar. In the video, Vasanthakumar voices support for his son Vijay Vasanth, who is standing as an MP in his former seatIt has less than six months since Divyendra Singh Jadoun, the 31-year-old founder of an artificial intelligence (AI) powered synthetic media company, started making content for political parties in India.
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May 10, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Yassmin Abdel-Magied |Ruth Anderson |Kety Abashidze
Atar, a digital magazine distributed via email and WhatsApp, first came to my attention late last October. I was in a dimly lit New York cafe, warmed by the company of a group of Sudanese diaspora; artists, activists, journalists, nursing hot teas and wounded souls. As it often does, the question of obtaining high quality Sudani news bubbled up. “Have you heard about Atar yet?’ someone asked. I hadn’t, yet. But this interaction was instructive.
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May 10, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Ruth Anderson |Kety Abashidze |Daisy Ruddock
One of the core roles of Index from its establishment was samizdat, providing access to real news for those people caught behind the Iron Curtain as an alternative to Soviet propaganda. We provided both a platform for dissidents and a news outlet for those subject to totalitarian censorship, an aspiration we continue to hold today.
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May 9, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Ruth Anderson |Martin Bright
Contents – The long reach: How authoritarian countries are silencing critics abroad Bahrain | Belarus | Brazil | Canada | China | Ecuador | Eritrea | Hong Kong | India | Kazakhstan | Kyrgyzstan | Magazine Contents | Mexico | North Korea | Palestine | Russia | Saudi Arabia | South Korea | Swaziland | Tajikistan | Thailand | Turkey | Turkmenistan | Ukraine | United Kingdom | United States | Uzbekistan | Vietnam | Volume 53.01 Spring 2024 Cover of Spring 2024 edition (53.01) of Index on...
