I'm really proud of my team and all the work they're currently doing to #FreeToomaj . And a reminder - Toomaj is just one of many who are being severely punished in Iran for simply fighting for basic human rights. Our work is only done once they're all free

European concepts of free speech are not precisely identical to American ones, but this sensitive and nuanced advice from @aclu makes a lot of sense.

Are you based at or near Exeter? If so this Thursday Index on Censorship are organising a panel discussion on #TransnationalRepression featuring Simon Cheng Hanna Komar John Heathershaw and myself. Come for expert insights on this growing problem. Tickets⬇️ indexoncensorship.org/events/the-lon…

The erasure of Uyghur history, culture and religion is ongoing in Xinjiang.

A woman in Nigeria faces three years in prison for posting a negative review online saying a tomato purée had too much sugar, in her opinion. “There is no consensus on the difference between a product review and a cybercrime”. opendemocracy.net/en/chioma-okol…

With thank to all the MEPs who took part in this urgent resolution to call out #HongKong 's #Article23 legislation, call for unconditional release of #JimmyLai , condemn #CCP transnational repression, adopt sanctions against HK officials responsible for civil society crackdown.

Many asking how they can help stop Iranian rapper توماج صالحی🌋 from being executed by the Iranian regime. Please do the following - in this thread below👇🏼
& spread the word, his only hope is worldwide headlines

#FreeToomaj : Last year توماج صالحی🌋 won the Index on Censorship’s #FreedomOfExpression Arts Award.

His tireless campaigning against the oppression of #Iran 's women through his music is inspiring, as the below video shows.

His death sentence is abhorrent & must be reversed.

Disgusting, morally bankrupt, gut-wrenching. World, do something please. Toomaj is one of the best of us

For a short period, the new issue of Index on Censorship - which looks at the increasingly concerning topic of transnational repression - is free to read via Sage Journals. Featuring Nathan Law 羅冠聰 周锋锁 Fengsuo Zhou Andrei Soldatov Kirill Martynov & more. Content here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/IOC/current

Copy of latest Index on Censorship magazine issue, featuring my Interpol piece, came in the post this week

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Happening now in #Tbilisi ! Women’s march against the proposed Russian-style foreign agent law aimed at ostracising and silencing free media, civil society and critical voices. Russian women stand here in solidarity too.

Incredibly powerful testimony from Carine Kanimba on the impact of finding out the Rwandan authorities were using #Pegasus #spyware to track her work advocating for the release of her father, #PaulRusesabagina . Terrifying, intimidating, discombobulating.

journalism festival #ijf24

#Belarus : Index has worked closely with dissidents ensuring Lukashenka's brutality is exposed to the world.

The The Guardian's report of Katsiaryna Novikava's treatment in Belarusian prison shows we cannot forget those fighting for #FreedomOfExpression .

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Honored to have written an introductory essay on the theme of transnational repression for a collection of excellent contributions in Index on Censorship

Many thanks to Jemimah Steinfeld for making it happen.

#ijf24 : “I wanted to capture the beauty of my people” he said. Instead he found himself capturing the horrors of war” - Jodie Ginsberg from CPJ on Gazan photojournalist MoTaz. We honoured him and other Palestinian journalists and watched his footage. Not a dry eye in room

#ijf24 : “Maintaining an actual, factual, detailed record of the past is one of the ultimate acts of resistance” says masha gessen speaking on the Russian Independent Media Archive, a project to ensure Putin’s crimes of the last two decades remain documented not destroyed