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Under the Taliban, Afghanistan’s musicians have fallen silent
A complete cultural ban has meant musical experts must stop playing or risk their lives. We explore the impact on those in ...
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Could Donald Trump’s administration be a double-edged sword for free speech?
We speak with the USA-based non-profit Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) about the new president's ...
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Golazin Ardestani: “They controlled my voice, my body, my agency”
Since Iranian singer-songwriter Gola fled her home country in 2011, she has continued her fight for women's rights in exile ...
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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: “The people of Belarus are showing the dictator that they want him gone”
Political opponents and journalists willing to challenge Lukashenka’s sham election face prison, exile or worse – but they ...
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Crown Confidential
The Royal Family sit at the head of the UK's state. This is not some minor, superficial position, but instead one that is ...
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Joe Mulhall, Solá Akingbolá and Hanna Komar champion silenced musicians
Renowned Uyghur musicians Rahima Mahmut and Shohret Nur then took the stage to perform songs that spoke to the attempted ...
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Afghanistan’s female lawyers are the latest target for the Taliban
This article first appeared in Volume 53, Issue 4 of our print edition of Index on Censorship, titled Unsung Heroes: How musicians are raising their voices against oppression. Read more about the ...
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Index condemns the arrest of two Palestinian booksellers and calls for their immediate and unconditional release
Index on Censorship is alarmed by the arrest and ongoing detention of author Mahmoud Muna, owner and bookseller of Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop. The Educational Bookshop specialises in Arabic and ...