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Index pays tribute to Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna who has died in Russian detention
The war reporter wrote from the front line for several Ukrainian news outlets before she was captured by Russian forces last year, and has now died in currently unknown circumstances
By Martin Bright
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LATEST ISSUE: VOLUME 53.02 SUMMER 2024
The final cut: How cinema is being used to change the global narrative
The Summer 2024 issue of Index looks at how cinema is used as a tool to help shape the global political narrative by investigating who controls what we see on the screen and why they want us to see it. We highlight examples from around the world of states censoring films that show them in a bad light and pushing narratives that help them to scrub up their reputation, as well as lending a voice to those who use cinema as a form of dissent. The issue contains stories ranging from India to Nigeria, giving us a global insight into the starring role the film industry plays in global politics.
Outside of our special report, Katie Dancey-Downs investigates book banning in UK school libraries, Laura Silvia Battaglia speaks to the director of a Palestinian theatre company about the harsh reality of life in Gaza and Ugonna-Ora Owoh warns of the queer Ghanaians being persecuted under new anti-LGBT+ laws. Elsewhere, Simon James Green speaks out about his experience of book banning, Anmol Irfan discusses Muslim influencers who are creating a misogynistic subculture online and Can Dündar explains the importance of exiled journalists working together.
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