Recent violence in the coastal regions has seen the Alawites targeted. What does the new leadership mean for coexistence of ...

A new Reuters Institute report on the British media landscape found that nearly half of those surveyed think the truth is ...

A ban on female healthcare workers is leaving women’s health and maternity services in a dire situation under Taliban rule ...

Hungary’s recent actions not only contravene the ECHR, but also the European Union’s (EU) policies around democracy and human ...

Zahra Joya is an Afghan journalist living in London and editor-in-chief and founder of Rukhshana Media, a news agency ...

This article first appeared in volume 53, issue 1 of Index on Censorship, The long reach: How authoritarian countries are silencing critics abroad, which was published in April 2024. Zhou Fengsuo, ...

Campaigner Peter Tatchell was detained on Saturday in a case that shows all that’s going wrong with free speech in the UK ...

The Spring 2024 issue of Index looks at how authoritarian states are reaching across borders in their attempts to silence dissidents. Nowhere is safe for those speaking out against oppressive regimes ...

In a secondary academy in England, a librarian is putting books into a box. Just moments before, they were proudly on the shelves, rainbow flags waving across their covers and words such as “queer” ...

The Spring 2023 issue of Index looks at the state of free expression in Narendra Modi’s India. It paints a bleak picture: The press, once vibrant, is being strangled; the judiciary is no longer ...

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 ...

The message of one of our founders, Stephen Spender, was that Index wouldn’t be doing a good job if it didn’t keep an eye on attacks to free expression that happen on home soil. With this in mind and ...