INDEX ON CENSORSHIP   |   VOL.53   |   NO.2

CONTENTS

Up Front

1 WHEN IDEOLOGY ENTERS

THE EQUATION: SALLY GIMSON Just who is silencing scientists?

6 THE INDEX: MARK STIMPSON

A tour around the world of free expression, including a focus on unrest in Venezuela

Features

12 A VOTE FOR A LEVEL

PLAYING FIELD: CLEMENCE MANYUKWE In Mozambique’s upcoming election, the main challenger is banned

14 WHISTLING THE TUNE OF

‘TERRORISM’: NEDIM TÜRFENT Speaking Kurdish, singing in Kurdish, even dancing to Kurdish tunes: do it in Turkey and be prepared for oppression

16 RUNNING LOW ON

EVERYTHING: AMY BOOTH The economy is in trouble in Bolivia, and so is press freedom

19 A DICTATORSHIP

IN THE MAKING: ROBERT KITUYI Kenya’s journalists and protesters are standing up for democracy, and facing brutal violence

22 LEAVE NOBODY

IN SILENCE: JANA PALIASHCHUK Activists will not let Belarus’s political prisoners be forgotten

24 A CITY’S LIMITS:

FRANCIS CLARKE The Hillsborough disaster still haunts Liverpool, with local sensitivities leading to a recent event cancellation

26 HISTORY ON THE

CUTTING ROOM FLOOR: THIỆN VIỆT The Sympathizer is the latest victim of Vietnam’s heavy-handed censors

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