censored

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Exiled Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli said on Wednesday that the government censored the publication of her latest novel in her home country because it is "afraid" to hear the truth.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

Q: Why do you think your novel was censored?

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

"These are the findings of our organisation that the BBC failed to show but we refused to be silenced and censored and we thank Channel 4."

From BBC • May 10, 2026

Tony Lyons, the company’s publisher, said the imprint will “give a platform to things that would, in many cases, be shut down, be censored, and be covered over by propaganda.”

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026

He did not want our parents to think that those letters of ours were censored in this way, and therefore he never allowed us to correct a spelling mistake in the letter itself.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl