Index rounds up of some of the key stories covering censorship and free expression from the past seven days
The week in free expression: 16 – 22 August 2025
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Index on Censorship
Tackling Transnational Repression in the UK Working Group
Transnational repression (TNR) is on the rise globally, fuelled by rapidly evolving technology, global democratic-backsliding and the rise of authoritarianism and years of neglect by previous governments.
Land of the Free?: Trump’s war on speech at home and abroad
Volume 54.02 Summer 2025
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Banned Books Week UK 2025
Join us in celebrating the right to read freely
Ireland’s Defamation (Amendment) Bill fails to protect public interest speech
More than 30 organisations call on the Seanad to take action over anti-SLAPP measures, calling it a missed opportunity to protect freedom of expression
Turkish arrest warrant against Nedim Türfent condemned
Index and other organisations sound alarm over threat of extradition facing the Kurdish writer, journalist and poet
Georgia: Independent media face increasing repression as new laws come into effect
Laws on foreign funding and broadcast content empower authorities to censor, prosecute and close media that provide vital news to the public
A letter to David Lammy on the imprisonment of Ahmed al-Doush
Index has written to the UK’s Foreign Secretary regarding the unjust treatment of the British citizen in Saudi Arabia
Celebrated author Margaret Atwood wins The British Book Award for Freedom to Publish
The Handmaid’s Tale author was awarded the prize in partnership with Index on Censorship
The harassment of Chinese-Australian artist, political cartoonist and activist Badiucao must end
More than 40 organisations from around the world stand in solidarity with the award-winning cartoonist
The forgotten patients: Lost voices in the global healthcare system
Volume 54.01 Spring 2025