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Contents – The Art of War: How artists and writers battle with censorship in times of conflict
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CATEGORY: Middle East and North Africa
Benjamin Netanyahu takes aim at Israel’s universities
New measures would limit universities’ ability to speak out against the government
Nasrin: a woman who won’t back down
As part of our series of dissident profiles, Index looks at Nasrin Sotoudeh, the imprisoned Iranian human rights lawyer who has made a career of defending political activists
Silencing mothers and covering up baby deaths is censorship
Women in maternity care are being neglected with deadly consequences
Israeli police compile dossiers on critical foreign journalists
Israel has started cracking down on foreign media reporting of its harsh practices in the occupied West Bank
Imprisoned and critically ill Iranian Nobel prizewinner warned three years ago that prisons were set up to kill
Narges Mohammadi had a suspected heart attack in jail in Iran and she is in a hospital that cannot treat her condition
From Belarus to Gaza we continue to bear witness to the unprecedented attacks on journalists globally
On World Press Freedom Day, Index renews calls for the protection of journalists worldwide
Banning pro-Palestine protest in the UK is no solution to antisemitism
Our former editor argues that we need to have the courage and vision to support the Jewish community without destroying a fundamental and necessary right
Why did Israel kill more journalists than any other country in the world last year?
Israel’s official position is that the Israel Defense Force (IDF) never targets journalists for being journalists – the facts tell a different story
The Gulf’s war on information
As Iranian missiles began falling over the Arabian Gulf, governments moved fast to intercept the strikes – and war-related coverage