“You can usually tell the quality of a tyrant’s credentials by the number of people he has thrown in jail on spurious grounds and Europe’s last dictator, Alyanksandr Lukashenka, is no exception,” says Index associate editor Mark Frary. Lukashenka...
If you were in the Iranian capital Tehran on Friday 23 September, you would be forgiven for thinking that Ali Khamenei was a popular and misunderstood leader. That day, thousands of Iranians marched through the city waving Iranian flags and holding...
While world leaders met in Sharm el-Sheikh for COP27, British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist and writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah began a full hunger strike. He is imprisoned for “spreading false news” and has been denied access to diplomatic and legal...
Major new investigation from Index on Censorship reveals the scale and reach of the CCP’s international soft power push across the European arts landscape
A new report demonstrates how the Chinese Communist Party uses art to extend the reach of censorship into cities across Europe
Index on Censorship has commissioned a legal opinion by Matthew Ryder KC and finds that the powers conceived would not be lawful under our common law and the existing human rights legal framework
Editors, journalists, lawyers and academics write to Dominic Raab to express support for the Model UK Anti-SLAPP Law launched by the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition
The Italian writer is facing a lawsuit for aggravated defamation initiated by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
Index and other organisations ask UN Special Rapporteurs to intervene on proposed UK legislation
“How to protect the freedom of the individual, including that of the artist, when the limits of government power are ever expanding, is a question for the whole world.” Chiang Seeta, exiled Chinese artist living in France Despite the strong focus...
Index joins other organistions in writing to the Home Secretary to say the arrest of journalists threatens press freedom in the UK
Index, RSF, the NUJ and openDemocracy say the overly broad and vague way the bill is currently drafted could see journalists labelled as spies