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Close-up of death Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Slavenka Drakulic
Joy in the West at the end of the Soviet Union evaporated when war erupted in former Yugoslavia. The pages of Index filled with stories of genocide, as well as questions about the nature of the reporter in such circumstances
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Bosnia on my mind Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Salman Rushdie
As civil war continued in the Balkans, misinformation spread and a feeling took hold that the world didn’t care enough because most victims were Muslim. Salman Rushdie, a regular contributor to Index, tackled the subject
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50 tech milestones of the past 50 years Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Mark Frary
When Index was first launched in 1972, a computer weighing 32kg helped take the last of the Apollo astronauts to the Moon. Within five years, computers as powerful as that were in people’s homes. Today’s smartphones would seem like magic to our Seventies forebears.
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The Index Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Mark Frary
A round-up of events in the world of free expression from Index’s unparalleled network of writers and activists.
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Special Report Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-03-23
“Identity politics has thrown up a phenomenon, a battleground which is not political so much as psycho-social, an intolerance between individuals, and it’s about language”
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The article that tore Turkey apart Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Kaya Genç
KAYA GENÇ looks back at an Index article which revealed a dark period in Turkey’s recent history – and led to its author’s imprisonment
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Ugandans still wait for life to turn sweet Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Issa Sikiti Da Silva
More than 40 years after the overthrow of Idi Amin, ISSA SIKITI DA SILVA in Kampala hears the frustrations of people today about Museveni’s cruel regime
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Jennings Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-03-23
Our cartoonist on the current crop of libertarians who claim freedom as their motive, while harbouring authoritarian tendencies
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We should not be put up for sale Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Aishwarya Jagani
An app “auctioning” Muslim women brings to light growing misogyny and Islamophobia in India. AISHWARYA JAGANI spoke to two women who found themselves on it
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Laughing in Rwanda Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-03-23 François Vinsot
When the 90s drew to a close, the world was still coming to terms with the bloody events that had defined the decade. Index’s network of on-the-ground correspondents came across stories rarely found elsewhere
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We walk a very thin line when we report ‘us and them’ Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Emily Couch
Reverting to stereotypes when we talk about non-Western countries is lazy and feeds into the hands of dictators, says EMILY COUCH
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It’s time to put down the detached watchdog Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Fréderike Geerdink
After years of working in Kurdistan, FRÉDERIKE GEERDINK questions whether Western newsrooms are failing in their duty to report accurately and really hold power to account
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A ghost-written tale of love Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Ariel Dorfman, Jemimah Steinfeld
The links between the past, present and future are important and hard to break, ARIEL DORFMAN tells JEMIMAH STEINFELD
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In vodka veritas Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Nick Harkaway, Jemimah Steinfeld
NICK HARKAWAY talks to JEMIMAH STEINFELD about the story he society has written based on the early days of Index and bars in Moscow
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‘Threats will not silence me’ Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Bilal Ahmad Pandow, Madhosh Balhami
As the authorities in Kashmir crack down on critical writing, BILAL AHMAD PANDOW talks to the poet MADHOSH BALHAMI about his 30 years of resistance
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Tuning in to revolution Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Jane Mcintosh
The 1970s and 80s saw battles rage between left wing and right wing governments, and guerrilla forces, across Latin America. Free speech was a casualty, but there was a not-so-secret way of subverting the system
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The Theatre of Resistance Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Martin Bright
Index has a long history of promoting the work of dissident playwrights, writes MARTIN BRIGHT
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The Index Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Tracy-Ann Oberman
A round-up of events in the world of free expression from Index’s unparalleled network of writers and activists.
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Women journalists caught in middle of a nightmare Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Zahra Nader
Many Afghan journalists - women in particular - have fled the Taliban or are in hiding from the brutal regime. ZAHRA NADER reports
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Omission is the same as permission Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Andy Lee Roth, Liam O’Connell
Malaysia’s introduction of emergency powers to deal with “fake news” was broadly ignored by the Western media - and that only emboldened the government, argue ANDY LEE ROTH and LIAM O’CONNELL
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I can run, but can I hide? Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Clare Rewcastle Brown
Journalist CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN is a wanted woman in Malaysia - and the long reach of Interpol means there are now few places where she can consider herself safe
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Dream of saving sacred land dies in the dust Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Scarlett Evans
Australia’s mining industry is at odds with the traditional beliefs of the Aboriginal population and, as SCARLETT EVANS reports, it is taking its toll on the country’s indigenous heritage
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Bylines, deadlines and the firing line Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Rachael Jolley
It’s not just pens and notebooks that journalists need in the USA, reports RACHAEL JOLLEY. It’s sometimes gas masks and protective vests, too
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Jennings Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Ben Jennings
Our cartoonist turns his attention to medical information and disinformation
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Maltese double cross Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Manuel Delia
Four years on from Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder, lessons have not been learned. Justice for the investigative journalist’s family remains elusive, writes MANUEL DELIA
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“Apple poisoned me: physically, mentally, spiritually” Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Martin Bright
Ashley Gjøvik, who was fired by the tech giant after blowing the whistle on toxic waste under her office, tells MARTIN BRIGHT that her fight will go on
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Special Report Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-01-12
“She turned city centres into theatres through her entrance into them, and the public became her audience, whether they were expecting it or not”
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Keeping the flame alive as theatre goes dark Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Natasha Tripney
Theatre across the world is fighting new waves of repression, intolerance and nationalism, as well as financial cuts, at a time when a raging pandemic has threatened its existence. NATASHA TRIPNEY introduces our special report
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Testament to the power of theatre as rebellion Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Kate Maltby
The Belarus Free Theatre, whose 16 members have now gone into exile to escape the Lukashenka regime, are preparing to perform at the Barbican in London in 2022. KATE MALTBY joins a rehearsal
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My dramatic tribute to Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Mark Frary
More than three decades after Index published the celebrated playwright’s work dedicated to the Czech dissident Vaclav Havel, censored Iranian writer Reza Shirmarz has responded with his own play, Muzzled. He talks to MARK FRARY
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Why the Taliban wanted my brave mother dead . . . Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Hamed Amiri
Hamed Amiri’s play The Boy with Two Hearts tells of his mother’s campaign for women’s rights and how the family fled Afghanistan. It is based on his memoir, an extract of which we publish overleaf. MARK FRARY reports
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The first steps: across Europe with Little Amal Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Joe Murphy, Joe Robertson
JOE MURPHY and JOE ROBERTSON of Good Chance Theatre on their symbolic take on the long journey of refugees from Syria to the UK, which we follow in these pictures
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Fighting Turkey’s culture war Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Kaya Genç
Theatres were shuttered in Istanbul following the Gezi Park protests in 2013 and repurposed as boutique hotels and campaign offices for the ruling AKP. But directors and playwrights have found ways around government attempts to stop the show, writes KAYA GENÇ
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Why is the world applauding the man who assaulted me? Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Caitlin May Mcnamara
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I wrote a play then lost my home, my husband and my trust Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Meltem Arikan
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God waits in the wings… ominously Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Guilherme Osinski,Mark Seacombe
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Russia’s great export: hostility to the free press Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Mikhail Khordokovsky
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The West is frightened of confronting the bully Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Bill Browder,John Sweeney
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The price of revealing oil’s dirty secrets Index on Censorship Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Martin Bright,Jonathan Taylor