Friday, 22 July 2022

Co-chairs of UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition welcome Government’s action on SLAPPs

Dominic Raab has announced proposed legislative measures to ensure that public watchdogs are no longer subject to legal intimidation. The proposals include recommendations from a coalition co-led by Index on Censorship. Read our statement here.
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Why we need to protect end-to-end encryption

Apps like Telegram and WhatsApp provide ways for human rights defenders and journalists to communicate without fear of discovery by authoritarian governments, writes Index CEO Ruth Smeeth in her latest blog post.
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This week Index on Censorship and Pushkin House held an event to discuss freedom of expression in Russia as part of the launch of the summer issue of our magazine. The panel included Russian investigative journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, as well as Ben Noble, Associate Professor in Russian Politics at University College London. You can watch the event here.

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In the summer 2022 issue of Index on Censorship, published this week, people across the spectrum talk about the corrosive effect of the war in Ukraine on freedoms and how this is playing out across Europe. Read incisive articles by Viktoria Sedult, a journalist in Hungary, about Europe’s most right-wing leader, Viktor Orbán; Hanna Komar, an activist from Belarus, on how she is desperately trying to challenge her parents on the lies they see on their TV; Andrey Kurkov on how today, as in the past, Russia is trying to erase Ukraine’s culture; and a discussion with the poet Lyuba Yumichuk on children in Donbas being fed an alternative history.

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