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Major new global free expression index sees UK ranking stumble across academic, digital and media freedom

by Index on Censorship | 25 Jan 2023

A major new global ranking index tracking the state of free expression is published today

Tyrant of the year 2022 named

by Index on Censorship | 13 Jan 2023

You voted in your thousands and there was a clear winner, Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Happy New Year! I think we can all agree, regardless of where we live, that 2022 was a tumultuous year. There was seemingly a new crisis every day. Totalitarian regimes moving against their populations became increasingly normal, from Iran to...

“I struggle with Kanye West being given a platform by anyone”

by Ruth Anderson | 9 Dec 2022

There are those within the Index family, including some of our founders, who consider free speech to be an absolute right, says Ruth Anderson

Who is 2022’s Tyrant of the Year?

by Index on Censorship | 1 Dec 2022

Choose from our shortlist of 12 despots and vote on who you think has done most to crack down on freedom of expression this year

Tyrant of the year 2022: Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua

by Index on Censorship | 1 Dec 2022

There is nothing more disappointing (or predictable) than a revolutionary hero turned tyrant. In the great tradition of Lenin and Castro, Ortega promised a new dawn as the leader of the rebel Sandinista National Liberation Front which opposed the...

Tyrant of the year 2022: Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico

by Index on Censorship | 1 Dec 2022

"He who has nothing to hide, has nothing to fear". These were the words uttered by the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador in a February 2022 press conference held the day after Heber López Vásquez, founder and director of the digital...