CEO @IndexCensorship. Author on China. Seen in @guardian @thetimes etc. @bsmeinfo editor award shortlister. Trustee @PaperRepublic. Dumplings forever
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Crying tears of joy here. An absolute hero, finally out of prison. We’ve campaigned for years for his freedom. We got there.
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"If you’ve convinced yourself what happens in Afghanistan has nothing to do with you, think again. Those policies are having worldwide impact," writes @AlexCrawfordSky
Read more: trib.al/aFsTrNP
I’m an encryption evangelist and believe everyone would be if they knew just how central private, secure communications are to freedom of expression.
A source of huge frustration to all of us working in this space that we must continue to make the case to the U.K. government.
The UK is now classed as a country where encryption is under severe threat, alongside China & Russia, as this map shows.
Encryption keeps our communications secure.
It’s staggering that the UK government isn’t doing everything in its power to defend it.
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Five people “planned to stage a car accident with the intention of breaking his arms and legs so he would be hospitalised and unable to go on stage, the prosecutors said.”
Sinister plot to silence a comedian taking on Xi in Taiwan foiled, thankfully.
hongkongfp.com/2026/10/22/ta…
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One issue with having gotten arrested in late March 2023 was that I was unable to keep writing about the tens of thousands of innocent Russian and Ukrainian political prisoners held in Russian jails. I’ve included some of their stories in This Cursed Beautiful Land, out now
Brilliant column here from the great Fintan O’Toole, who nails the argument that many things can be true at once & teases out the difference between virtue signalling versus actual stands on moral principle
The journalists were carrying out work firmly in the public interest (investigating Ukraine’s former Prosecutor General who’s embroiled in a money laundering scandal). Coincidence?
Even if unrelated their treatment is still disturbing.
Two journalists from @pravda_eng were violently arrested in Vienna this month. The Vienna prosecutor’s office has yet to provide a convincing explanation. The circumstances demand a full and transparent investigation.
More on the case:
indexoncensorship.org/2026/1…
Wowza. I’m all for people studying Chinese history, culture, politics and languages but the jump from impartial learning to let’s get cosy with Beijing is huge and needs to be avoided at all costs.
Students are being taught that Britain must forge closer links with China in a textbook accused of peddling “propaganda”, The Telegraph can reveal.
The A-level book, widely used in schools by British teenagers studying Mandarin, says the UK should “deepen cooperation” with Beijing in the wake of Brexit ⤵️
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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#Rwanda: Shocking case of gov critic found beheaded, with hallmarks of it being transnational repression. After all Kagame has come after critics abroad before.
Unless this is properly investigated & people are held to account such violence will continue bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ly…
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CAMPAIGN: The Taliban have silenced Afghan women in public life. "Letters from Afghan Women" offers a rare glimpse into the lives behind the restrictions.
Read their words here: indexoncensorship.org/campai…
The absolute state of the U.K. right now in terms of free speech where incidents like this are becoming common. A mother @MummyisT - studying an MA in Holocaust studies - is referred to Prevent & questioned by police following a trip to Israel telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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A Pakistani scholar faces execution for allegedly insulting Islam. Set him free!
I oppose both blasphemy laws & capital punishment.
No justice system should execute people for their words or beliefs.
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Very moved by this @arcolatheatre drama of Hannah Arendt’s internment at Camp Gurs during WW2; and just as much by an unexpected invitation to join the cast for Kiddush and challah in the bar afterwards. arcolatheatre.com/event/the-…
Not everything done in the name of a cause is legitimate protest. If the intention is to shut down someone else then the free speech defence becomes thin. Yesterday the remarkable Adam Wagner KC had his talk on Israeli hostages momentarily derailed. More👇 robertsharp.co.uk/2026/10/15…
Went to report on how repressive the publishing industry is in Hong Kong today (and it really is). What I didn’t expect to discover was a handful of dissenting bookstores that had opened in recent years. In awe of the brave booksellers.
thebookseller.com/news/a-las…
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Today, the Index team joined @RSF_inter and @CPJ_Eurasia at the Malta High Commission to mark the anniversary of Daphne Caruana Galizia's death in 2017.
Daphne was a fierce journalist and we were proud to light a candle in her honour. The search for justice continues.
I have no doubt people will disagree with some (or even all) of what a write here. And praise be! That’ll at least show one aspect of free speech working in the U.K.
Sally Rooney is a banned author. Sally Rooney is not a banned author. Can both be true?
Index CEO @JFSteinfeld examines how Palestine Action's proscription led to her books being withdrawn from UK distribution, and what this means for free expression.
🔗indexoncensorship.org/2026/1…
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The protests worked: Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court has set aside a death sentence handed to a Sri Lankan migrant worker over a comment he made on Facebook that was deemed blasphemous. trib.al/QRCwGp9
A very powerful, moving piece 👇
Can displacement ever be voluntary when returning home may be impossible?
Israeli officials call proposals for Palestinians to leave Gaza “voluntary migration”.
@YoumnaElSayed17 examines how language can obscure the reality of displacement.
🔗indexoncensorship.org/2026/1…
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Anne Frank died of typhus in a concentration camp and Hind Rajab died terrified in a car and neither of them should have died and both of their deaths are awful and I don't think we need to make a competition out of dead children.
Anne Frank died of typhus.
Hind Rajab died being directly shot by Jewish terrorists.
Could these ghouls be any clearer that only Jewish lives matter to them?
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Anne Frank died of typhus due to intense medical neglect, starvation and unsanitary conditions in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
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