Index has learned that Special Forces broke into the apartment of Nikolai Khalezin, art director of Belarus Free Theatre, this morning [20 December] and arrested him. He is reported to have been taken to unknown destination. He is already third...
Reports are emerging from Belarus that opposition leaders Andrei Sannikov, Nikolai Statkevich, Rygor Katusev and Vitaly Rymanshevsky have been arrested by police. Sannikov had earlier declared a provisional coalition in Belarus, after thousands...
Index on Censorship has learned that Natalia Koliada, a founder member of the Belarus Free Theatre, has been detained by authorities in Minsk. Koliada has been unable to contact other members of the dissident theatre group. Tens of thousands of...
As the world’s attention turns to Europe’s last dictatorship, Index’s Mike Harris explains the background to today’s demonstrations
Screening: Staging a revolution 19 December, Free Word Centre
As funders threaten to punish the US gallery that censorsed the first major US exhibition of gay art, Salil Tripathi looks at the fallout of America’s culture wars
Our special report brings together some of the world’s finest writers to look back at one of the longest running campaigns for freedom of expression
His 15-year jail term for spying and separatist activities is finally over, but Chinese dissident Hada, (who is ethnically Mongolian) is missing, along with his wife and son. The 55-year-old writer was scheduled to be released last Friday, while...
Robert Ježić, majority owner of the Croatian daily Novi List, was arrested in Zagreb yesterday. His arrest is thought to be connected with the flight of former PM Ivo Sanader, who exited Croatia yesterday morning, hours before the parliament lifted...
As ideas move freely around the world attacks on writers continue, reports
Lisa Appignanesi
LETTER FROM THE OUTSIDE Playwright Tom Stoppard on why he would never have been a writer in prison – and the importance of communicating with those who are POWER OF THE PEN Carole Seymour-Jones celebrates the achievements of 50 years of fighting...
With less than a day to go before the Nobel Committee awards Chinese imprisoned dissident (or convicted criminal if you are the Beijing government) Liu Xiaobo this year’s peace prize, China has been stumbling over itself to create diversions, block...