China isn’t the only country imposing limits on creative expression, argues the provocative artist. ‘Chinese culture is the opposite of provocation,” Ai Weiwei once told an interviewer ...Provocation though? In spades.
The writer is in Australia.Anthony Albanese’s malignant tumour of a proposed law, his mooted hate speech law bill, has been withdrawn by the Prime Minister...By the way, this proposed Bill would have done nada, nothing, zero to get at that problem ... 3.
One of the catalysts has been has been my book The Confessions of Samuel Pepys... Paradoxically this was precisely why he was subjected to censorship by editors who in part feared how the truth might reflect on them and their choice of subject ... Tags ... 0. 0.
Protests, often violent, have punctuated life in Iran over the past five decades, and Index on Censorship has borne witness to these demonstrations over that entire ...
This article first appeared in the Winter 2025 issue of Index on Censorship, Gen Z is revolting ... The censorship of women musicians in Russia is not, it should be said, a recent phenomenon ... censorship.
In a bold new and shocking form of censorship in America, government agents have invaded the personal home of a news reporter in the early hours of the morning, a time usually reserved for drug dealers and others committing secret felonies.
Opinion. Cars burn in a street during a protest over the collapse of the currency’s value, in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 8, 2026. Photo. Stringer/WANA (West AsiaNewsAgency) via REUTERS... It was revealing ... The language was familiar ... Two continents ... origin ... .
Please share our story!. Lucy Connolly, who was previously jailed for an offensive Twitter post, is being threatened with a return to prison for reposting a joke about Donald Trump coming for the UK Prime Minister.
"But that responsibility should consider government-coordinated censorship and violence on that nation's citizens ... If a government chooses censorship and large-scale human rights violations, they ...