Since March, Emirati authorities have arrested over 50 activists and human rights defenders in a widespread crackdown on dissent. Index joins a group of international rights groups in calling on UK Foreign Minister William Hague and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to push for the prisoners’ release
A young Belarusian journalist has been arrested and detained – for taking photographs of teddy bears that the government denies even exist.
Andrei Aliaksandru reports
Max Mosley has some ambitious ideas for the internet. Speaking briefly at the Leveson Inquiry today, the former motorsports boss outlined his plans for the future regulation of the British press, on which Leveson will make recommendations this...
Padraig Reidy: What?!? Now we’re not even allowed to link to the Olympics website?
On Thursday 12 July, British parliamentarians will vote on a government motion on whether to back the creation of a European Union special representative on human rights
Russia's Wikipedia and LiveJournal blacked out today to protest a draft law that would allow websites that promote drugs, suicide or contain contain porn or “extremist” materials to be blacklisted without judicial oversight. Activists fear the...
A draft law is set to create a digital blacklist of Russian websites which promote drugs or suicide or contain contain porn or "extremist" materials. The draft law would allow websites to be blacklisted without judicial oversight --- it merely...
British MPs back Index campaign to protect free speech in Eurovision host state
Comics Dara Ó Briain and Dave Gorman and scientist Professor Brian Cox joined Index and the Libel Reform Campaign at Downing Street to demand a public interest defence in the defamation bill
While the internet and social media facilitate democratic instant global discourse, they are also tools of control, says Kirsty Hughes
PLUS: Read our Storify of the Dublin Internet Freedom Conference
Petitions, letters, and press releases from Index on Censorship