The #Reform aping of #Trump, #MAGA and #DOGE has been laughably pathetic but it WILL do damage.
Don't let them try to pretend they care about #FreeSpeech. They are as censorious, thin-skinned and weak as the authoritarians they are LARPing.
This must be opposed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A poster featuring a picture of Toomaj Salehi as a record sleeve advertising a listening party DATE: Thursday 29 May 2025 TIME: 18:00 - 19:30 LOCATION: Some Great Reward, Unit 2, The Cooperage, 674 Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow, G41 2QE
Join @indexoncensorship.org & Some Great Rewards tomorrow on the southside of Glasgow to stand up for Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, listen to his music and celebrate the courage of the Women, Life, Freedom movement www.somegreatreward.scot/news/were-st...
#Iran #Hiphop #humanrights #Glasgow
What an incredible exhibition! A great way to visualise library censorship.
Thanks so much @alisonhicks0.bsky.social and @ioe.bsky.social for featuring my @indexoncensorship.org investigation.
Hungarian lawmakers are voting today on a constitutional amendment that would ban #Pride and legally recognise only two sexes, among other measures. We condemn this as a blatant violation of human rights in #Hungary:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
📢 Stand with Belarusian political prisoners! Join us outside the Embassy of #Belarus on Tuesday 25 March, 1-2pm to demand freedom for those unjustly detained by Lukashenka’s regime. Join us and spread the word! www.indexoncensorship.org/events/stand...
#Australia now leads the world in arresting climate and environmental protesters, according to new research from the University of Bristol. Amy Fallon writes for Index on how direct action is increasingly under threat: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/02/aust...
Just a few weeks to go! Join us on 29 January as 4 world-class performers—Sola Akingbola, Rahima Mahmut, Hanna Komar, and Shohret Nur—take the stage in honour of fearless musicians around the world raising their voices against oppression. Register now:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unsung-her...
Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?
"[T]he idea that tolerance can be fostered in the form of more laws to define permitted and unpermitted speech and expression is a fallacy. Tolerance is not improved by less tolerance, as all these examples painfully show."
An insightful read by @indexoncensorship.org @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social
Join us on Wed 29 Jan at The Jago in London to launch our latest mag, Unsung Heroes! With performances by award-winning percussionist Sola Akingbola and the Eegun Rhapsodies, Rahima Mahmut & Shohrat Nur and Hanna Komar. Register & get a free drink on the night: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unsung-her...
With thanks to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe for presenting the Index on Censorship award for Campaigning 2024! The 2024 winners are Diala Ayesh and Kuchu Times.
We strongly condemn the sentencing of dozens of prodemocracy advocates today in Hong Kong.
We call for the immediate release of all those wrongly detained and prosecuted in Hong Kong. We continue to stand with the people of Hong Kong and China in their struggle for democracy.
Yesterday, imprisoned British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah spent another birthday behind bars in #Egypt. It also marked his mother's 50th day on hunger strike, protesting his imprisonment. Index continues to call for his immediate release: www.indexoncensorship.org/2024/09/brit...
Huzzahs, I just treated myself to a Mucha flower Mari print (would like to collect them all!) then felt guilty I'd nothing for my daughter....bought some stickers from some seasonal sticker-booking 😎
Somewhat fittingly I am, under the full moon and last #supermoon of 2024, indulging in Sarah Clegg's @readingartefacts.bsky.social devilishly good "The Dead of Winter" (Granta) ahead of our chat next week at Cambridge Literary Festival....
This is a brilliant short read on why this haka is being heard around the world. As the child of two oppressed cultures I felt this raw emotion deep in my soul. There is no Irish or Caribbean equivalent.
🟧 NEW TNR Watch: What’s in a Name?
Varied responses to #transnationalrepression skipped a critical step—no common definition was established in legislation.
Our November analysis explores this gap and how US policymakers should fill it: freedomhouse.org/article/tnr-...
Ok this is the type of content I'm here for 🧙🏽♀️🤓
Out with the old, in with the new and all that. Hello Bluesky, byeeee X or Twitter or dystopian hellscape or whatever it is called these days
At the 2nd European Anti-SLAPP Conference, co-hosted by the Council of Europe, the CASE Coalition and @ecpmf.bsky.social, stakeholders discuss implementing legal standards to counter SLAPPs, fostering awareness, and supporting targets and victims
#antiSLAPPCon #freedomofexpression
> go.coe.int/2bnzQ
This gives me chills. zan, zendegi, azadi 🇮🇷✊🏽
