Authoritarian
Reporting on how authoritarian states attack freedom of expression by dominating the media, preventing freedom of assembly, restricting online speech and imprisoning, attacking or even killing those who speak out.
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TOP STORY
Interview: Ma Jian
Novelist Ma Jian, a veteran of the Tiananmen Square protests, talks to
Nigel Warburton about political and artistic freedom in China
LEADING STORIES
Belarus: Pulling the plug
Europe's last dictatorship plans even tighter controls over citizens' access to the digital world, Index shows in a new report
Read the report in full here
Press Release: Internet explosion backfires for Europe’s last dictator
The practice of freedom
The fight for freedom begins with freedom of speech, says Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi
Putin’s Russia at war with civil society
Russian authorities not only have narrowed the rules regarding NGOs’ activities, but they also subject civil society activists to direct repression, Andrei Aliaksandrau reports
Bahrain is Britain’s shame
At her speech in the House of Commons, Maryam Alkhawaja asked MPs to put pressure on Bahrain to commit to reforms and free political prisoners, including her father and sister. Here, the prominent human rights defender denounces Britain’s indifference