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Friday, 05 August 2022
** Index on Censorship files media freedom alert after Sinn Féin MLA legal action
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Sinn Féin politician Gerry Kelly MLA is suing two journalists over their comments on radio and in print. Index argues that politicians have a duty to display a greater degree of restraint when it comes to taking legal action against the media. Read our statement here ([link removed]) . Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Archive/PA Images
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** We need to talk about history
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As unimpeded access to information becomes the norm in democracies in the 21st century, it might be easy to assume that rewriting history to agree with your own world view would be almost impossible. It feels, however, increasingly naive to believe that immediate access to this sheer volume of news and information is actually protecting truth. Read our CEO Ruth Smeeth's latest blog post on reputation laundering ([link removed]) , practised by oligarchs and authoritarian rulers worldwide today, and how it is not as new as it seems.
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The summer 2022 issue of Index on Censorship is out now. In the latest issue, artists, dissidents and journalists write about the corrosive effect of the war in Ukraine on freedoms 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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