Jemimah Steinfeld
CEO @indexoncensorship.org and journalist. Chat mostly human rights, free speech, politics, climate & China.
Sometimes in Guardian, BBC, Independent, Prospect, Times, CNN etc.
Author of book on sex & youth in China.
- #China: Two journalists - Liu Hu and Wu Yingjiao - have been detained because of their reporting, which looked into corruption by a senior official. This is the kind of public-interest reporting that journalists are supposed to do. They should be released immediately.
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- Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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- Yes - until you see it firsthand, it’s hard to understand how upsetting and enraging it is to see these guys operate in your community. They are dressed for war, they beat civilians up, they openly antagonize neighbors, they’re masked, they carry people away. Everyone is livid at every scene.
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- Today our friend and former colleague #AndreiAliaksandrau spends another birthday behind bars in #Belarus. Watch as Margaret Atwood, Nadya from Pussy Riot, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore & Trevor Phillips come together to recite his poem. The authorities must #FreeAndrei ⬇️ youtu.be/PtYfwV-sTNA?...
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- NEW: this is how the US press would report on this if it was happening in a ‘shithole country’. It’s an execution. But it also reveals how weak Trump really is open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
- in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
- While Trump has sucked up all the air, please take a moment to learn about heroes like Chow Hang-tung and Albert Ho. Don't let the Beijing and Hong Kong governments get away with repression when the world is not looking. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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- #Iran: With internet access still cut, the reports that do emerge are deeply disturbing including thousands of suspected deaths and accounts of sexual assault and torture of detained protesters. The people of Iran deserve our solidarity. We must keep raising our voices.
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- Cartoon on ICE Agent Kills Woman During Minneapolis Immigration Raid
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- Dozens of students have been injured as Israeli forces raided Birzeit University following a solidarity event and a screening of the film Hind Rajab. Described as an “unprecedented” assault, it's a flagrant attack on academic freedom. The details are here 1/2: www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
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- #Iran: We've seen disturbing videos of forces entering hospitals to attack protesters. To now be silencing free speech through fear and violence in places of healing is an extreme escalation. It must be condemned loudly and immediately.
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- "The government signposts end-to-end encryption as a threat, but what they fail to consider is that breaking it would be a threat to our national security too." Our CEO @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social on the urgent need to protect end-to-end encryption: www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
- A petition to repeal the UK’s Online Safety Act will be debated in Parliament at 4:30pm today. As MPs gather to debate it, we urge the government to rethink breaking end-to-end encryption which endangers journalism at home and around the world: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/12/inve...
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- 💥 MAGA 101: Inside Trump’s fast-track masterclass in undermining academic freedom. My latest article for @indexoncensorship.org assesses the Trump Administration's assault on US Higher Education: A blueprint that threatens academic freedom internationally. www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/12/maga...
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- In the aftermath of the devastating #HongKong fire, student #MilesKwan has been arrested on sedition charges after launching a petition calling for an independent investigation. We must speak out against his arrest & the ongoing clampdown on free speech: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/30/h...
- Photo of Stoppard with Vaclav Havel, no less
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- A message to the #BBC: allow listeners to question @rutgerbregman.com's #Trump comment. Removing that line wasn't moderation. It was capitulation. It was censorship.
