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CATEGORY: Asia and Pacific
India’s police suppress pollution protests
Nearly 100 people detained after heavy-handed response to demonstration at India Gate
History is being written by the AI victors
Erasing inconvenient truths isn’t new but technology is making it so much easier
Is academic freedom at risk in the UK?
Funding and culture conformity is slowing eroding free expression in universities
How artist Sai’s exhibition in Thailand was censored after Chinese protests
The Burmese artist and curator says an attempt to silence his art show against repression has amplified its message around the world
The week in free expression 24 October – 31 October
Index rounds up of some of the key stories covering censorship and free expression from the past seven days
Do the dead have free expression?
Index explores the issues around whether AI should be used to bring the deceased back to life
There’s only room for one god in China
Churchgoers in China outnumber members of the Communist Party and Xi Jinping is now cracking down hard
The week in free expression 17 October – 24 October
Index rounds up of some of the key stories covering censorship and free expression from the past seven days
Police in Islamabad raid the press club in an escalation of Pakistan’s attack on the media
Akbar Notezai travelled to the capital to talk exclusively to some of the journalists who were physically assaulted