Index on Censorship, a leading international organisation promoting freedom of expression, has today announced the appointment of its next Chief Executive Officer.

Nov 20, 2024 · Evgenia Kara-Murza Trustees award winner. Evgenia Kara-Murza is Advocacy Director of Free Russia Foundation, activist, translator and wife of political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza, twice-poisoned Russian opposition leader, imprisoned on 11 April 2022 for protesting Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Banned Books Week is here once again. And so too are more stories of books being censored across the world. This week, Pen America reported that the number of book bans in public schools has nearly tripled in 2023-24 from the previous school year. While the week-long Banned Books Week event, supported by a coalition including Index on Censorship, looks largely towards bans in the USA, we’re ...

Jan 23, 2011 · Index on Censorship is the voice of free expression. We publish censored writers and artists, promote debate, monitor threats to freedom of speech.

Simon James Green is an award-winning UK author of young adult books and a leading writer in LGBTQ+ teen fiction.

Described by The Economist as “The Forgotten War”, the current conflict in Sudan may have escaped the notice of the average news consumer. Beyond headlines of rushed evacuations shortly after the hostility erupted in April 2023 and mastheads warning of an “Afghanistan repeat”, the situation in the north-eastern African nation has rapidly receded from view.

Iranian hip-hop artist and rapper Toomaj Salehi, who has been released following an international campaign by Doughty Street Chambers, Index on Censorship and Human Rights Foundation

For many of us, specifically those who have experienced prison, Toomaj Salehi is the symbol of resistance against an autocratic regime’s oppression, and whose honest and unapologetic voice cuts through the sheer reality of a society suffering from repression and corruption.. To us, condemning Salehi to death for his songs and lyrics is the …

Media freedom has been slowly dying in Syria since the Arab Spring, suffocated by a lack of regular funding and poor governance. The rise of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party and Hafez al-Assad’s coup in 1970 led to state dominance over all its institutions, resulting in a media monopoly that supports the regime.

We knew it was coming. It was 28 November 2021, and I was meeting my friend Ravish for the first time in nearly 20 months. Because of Covid I had been working from home since March 2020; a home that was 660km away from Delhi.