In this issue of Index on Censorship magazine, authors from around the world including the former Observer literary editor Robert McCrum, and Oxford University's Stuart White consider what clauses they would draft into a 21st century version of the Magna Carta; from Mexico a review of its constitution and its flawed justice system; Turkish novelist Kaya Genc looks at the recent intimidation against Turkish female writers and Natasha Joseph reports from Johannesburg on allegations of witchcraft in South Africa, and how people take action into their own hands. With reports from the Ukraine and Russia on the information and propaganda war, and plus new poetry and a previously unpublished play extract.
Chapter 1: Editorial - Rachael Jolley Part I: Special Report: Magna Carta and the Cause of Freedom Chapter 2: Making a 21st-Century Magna Carta - Robert Mccrum, Hans-Joachim Neubauer, Danny Sriskandarajah, Rita El Khayat, Elif Shafak, Renata Avila, Ferial Haffajee, Stuart White Chapter 3: 1215 and All That - John Crace Chapter 4: Stripsearch Cartoon - Martin Rowson Chapter 5: Battle Royal - Mark Fenn Chapter 6: Land and Freedom? - Ritu Menon Chapter 7: Give Me Liberty - Peter Kellner Chapter 8: Constitutionally Challenged - Duncan Tucker Chapter 9: Courting Disapproval - Shahira Amin Chapter 10: Digging Into the Power System - Sue Branford Chapter 11: Critical Role - Natasha Joseph Chapter 12: Global View - Jodie Ginsberg Part II: In Focus Chapter 13: Brave New War - Andrei Aliaksandrau Chapter 14: Propaganda War Obscures Russian Soldiers' Deaths - Helen Womack Chapter 15: Azeri Attack - Rebecca Vincent Chapter 16: The Political is Personal - Arzu Geybullayeva Chapter 17: Really Good Omens - Martin Rowson Chapter 18: Police (In)Action - Simon Callow Chapter 19: Drawing Fire - Rayma And Bonil Chapter 20: Thoughts Policed - Max Wind-Cowie Chapter 21: Media under Siege or a Freer Press? - Vicky Baker Chapter 22: Turkey's "Treacherous" Women Journalists - Kaya Genc Chapter 23: Dark Arts - Nargis Tashpulatova Chapter 24: Talk is Cheap - Steven Borowiec Chapter 25: Fear of Faith - Jemimah Steinfeld Chapter 26: Time Travel to Web of the Past and Future - Mike Godwin Part III: Culture Chapter 27: Language Lessons - Chen Xiwo Chapter 28: Spirit Unleashed - Diane Fahey Chapter 29: Diary Unlocked - Hanoch Levin Chapter 30: Oz on Trial - John Kinsella Chapter 31: Index around the World - Aimee Hamilton Chapter 32: Humour on Record - Vicky Baker
