“Not speaking out causes guilt; but speaking out causes fear.” - anonymous Uyghur woman Despite being far outside China's borders, in a region synonymous with human rights, rule of law, and democracy, many Uyghurs in Europe refrain from publicly...
Index award winner reveals ordeal after she shared an article on drug trafficking in Niger
Seven organisations including Index are closely monitoring the cases of two journalists who reported on a major financial scandal
We join seventeen other organisations in supporting the award-winning journalist who is facing a week-long defamation trial in London this week
It is now a year since our former colleague and his partner were detained following Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s disputed election victory
In a recent interview with the Guardian, the president of COP26 Alok Sharma expressed concern that the agreements made at the Glasgow summit will end up as “a bunch of meaningless promises”. Two months on from the summit, it is timely to take stock...
Phillips is honoured with knighthood for his work on understanding Covid-19
The arrests of prominent Hong Kong journalists and activists are an assault on media freedom and we must shout loudly against them
Volume 50.03 Autumn 2021
The Winter issue of Index magazine highlights the battles fought by theatre of resistance across the world and how they've been enduring different forms of censorship. Writer Jonathan Maitland dives deeply into the history of theatre censorship in...
Index on Censorship condemns the sentencing to four years in prison of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and calls for all charges to be dropped. She was convincted of incitement and also of breaking Covid regulations during the campaign for the...
The individual who has been voted the most oppressive in 2021 by Index readers has been named