Censorship

R2K to protest SABC pulling ‘The Big Debate’

Article Sapa - 18 Oct 2013

The Right2Know Campaign will organise a protest at the SABC's Johannesburg offices over the cancelling of current affairs talk show "The Big Debate".

Media blackout for Tanzania minister, director

Africa bogdan TagDiv - 9 Oct 2013

Media organisations will not publish anything from Tanzania's information department in protest of three local newspapers being banned.

Shange censored by SABC for anti-ANC views, says Wasp

Article Staff Reporter - 4 Oct 2013

The SABC censored Workers and Socialist Party spokesperson Liv Shange because she is anti-ANC, alleges the party.

Jo’burg Art Fair censorship: Artists back each other up

Article Percy Zvomuya - 30 Sep 2013

The redeeming factor of the Jo'burg Art Fair was seeing one artist stand up for another, writes Percy Zvomuya.

Hungary’s culture is being crushed or co-opted

Article George Szirtes - 6 Aug 2013

The 'patriotic' culture war being waged by the government may force the closure of one of Hungary's leading arts academies

Reporter arrested for porn after criticising Zambia’s president

Africa Staff Reporter - 30 Jul 2013

Zambia's police have charged a journalist with having porn on his computer in an apparent crackdown on media critical of the state, says his lawyer.

Durban film festival: How to ban a movie

Article bogdan TagDiv - 24 Jul 2013

The outcry over the banning of the film "Of Good Report" has left the Film and Publication Board fighting to defend its decision.

Durban film festival: Censors shut down opening film

Article bogdan TagDiv - 19 Jul 2013

The opening film of the Durban International Film Festival, "Of Good Report", has been effectively banned by the Film and Publication Board.

Jia Zhangke: I’ll break China’s silence

Article bogdan TagDiv - 5 Jul 2013

Jia Zhangke challenges his compatriots’ deeply ingrained reluctance to speak about injustice and uses his films to feature them.

Anne Frank’s diary isn’t pornographic – it just reveals an uncomfortable truth

Article Staff Reporter - 2 May 2013

Instead of banning the diary from schools, as Gail Horalek would like, we should teach girls not to be ashamed of their bodies.

Burma gets steamed up by sex education magazine

Article Shwe Yinn, Mar Oo & Shwe Yinn Mar Oo - 12 Jan 2013

Burma's first sex education magazine has got the usually demure nation hot under the collar as it explores new-found cultural freedom.

Chinese weekly to publish ‘as normal’ after censorship threats

Article Sapa Afp - 9 Jan 2013

A Chinese newspaper at the centre of public protests about government censorship will publish as usual following reports of a deal to end the row.

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