The UN Human Rights Office report on China’s activities in the region has finally been published after long delays and on the day the High Commissioner ends her term
The removal of the Rajapaksa clan will not solve Sri Lanka’s deeply ingrained problem with corruption and the repression of dissent
Criticism of China’s Covid-Zero policy is being censored online
As British MPs are warned over a Chinese national seeking influence in the UK parliament, Index continues to shine a light on the CCP’s activities globally
We join seventeen other organisations in supporting the award-winning journalist who is facing a week-long defamation trial in London this week
Turkish playwright Meltem Arikan’s Mi Minör was blamed for the seminal Gezi Park protests that convulsed Istanbul
In June 2015, a national newspaper in Britain started a campaign to have a play banned. This surprised me for two reasons. One: clearly no one had told the Daily Mirror about the Theatre Act 1968, which abolished the state’s censorship of the stage...
The Belarus Free Theatre, whose 16 members have now gone into exile to escape the Lukashenka regime, are preparing to perform at the Barbican in London in 2022
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...
Two Turkish writers discuss Index on Censorship’s new magazine, which looks at how playwrights and directors are resisting oppression
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