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Censorship

November 2023

  • Nadia Whittome, Shami Chakrabarti and Annie Mac, who are calling for a change in UK law regarding the use of song lyrics as evidence.

    ‘It risks miscarriages of justice’: MPs oppose rap lyrics being used as evidence in UK trials

    MPs Nadia Whittome and Kim Johnson, plus figures including Shami Chakrabarti and Annie Mac, support Art Not Evidence campaign against contentious use of lyrics
  • Protesters in London calling for a ceasefire in Gaza

    Revealed: plan to brand anyone ‘undermining’ UK as extremist

    Leaked documents spark furious backlash from groups who fear freedom of expression could be suppressed
  • Matty Healy, holding guitar, kisses his male bandmate on the lips and holds his hand against his back

    Malaysia issues ‘kill switch’ order to cut controversial concerts

    Measure to ensure foreign artists ‘adhere to the local culture’ follows incident at gig by the 1975 in Kuala Lumpur

October 2023

  • Crowds of people stand looking at a huge pile of flower tributes.

    China seeks to stifle public grief for former premier Li Keqiang

  • A middle-aged Black woman with long black hair, black-framed glasses, and a bright blue graduation robe speaks into a microphone at a lectern.

    Scholastic reverses decision to separate books on race, gender and sexuality

  • Books are on display during a read-in and rally against book bans in Tallahassee, Florida in March this year.

    Penguin Random House launches high schoolers’ award to combat book bans

  • Silence Rouge et Bleu by the French-Algerian artist Zoulikha Bouabdellah.

    ‘A triumph of freedom of expression’: censored art museum opens in Spain

  • Pro-Palestinian views face suppression in US amid Israel-Hamas war

  • Drink, lechery and fellatio by snake: was the Renaissance a sexually subversive love-in?

  • Scholastic to separate books on race, gender and sexuality for book fairs

  • Instagram users accuse platform of censoring posts supporting Palestine

  • Chinese programmer ordered to pay 1m yuan for using virtual private network

  • Get on the bus: banned books tour hits the road, from New York to Texas

  • Celluloid counter-revolution: a salute to the underground film lovers of Iran

  • Ian McEwan criticises hiring of ‘sensitivity readers’ looking for offensive material in manuscripts

September 2023

  • Three older white men lean toward a white piece of paper on a table covered with a black tablecloth attended by a younger blond woman. A sign on the table says, 'Do you know what your child is reading?'

    North Carolina bans ‘Banned Books Week’ but retracts after media backlash

    Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district publicly amends instructions to principals after the Daily Beast picks up story
  • Vladimir and Véra Nabokov circa 1965.

    Graham Greene was ‘ready to go to jail for Lolita’, says Véra Nabokov’s diary

    Newly published record of the struggle to get the controversial 1955 novel past censors adds ‘there could be no better reason’

    • China’s manipulation of media threatens global freedoms, says US report

    • ‘A tool of political control’: how India became the world leader in internet blackouts

    • New guidelines urge UK libraries not to avoid controversial books and ideas

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