I have struggled to write this blog. There don’t seem to the right words for something so serious, so terrifying but so utterly predictable. Putin has invaded Ukraine - again. As I write there are Russian bombs falling across Ukraine. Innocent...
More than 130 human rights and journalism organisations issue statement in condemnation of invasion and attacks on the press
Dissent against the action in Ukraine could be crushed just as it was in Czechoslovakia in 1968 but we should not give up hope
It is now a year since our former colleague and his partner were detained following Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s disputed election victory
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...
Index’s CEO looks ahead to this weekend’s Freedom of Expression Awards
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Few things can better describe the spirit of Liverpool fans better than the words etched in gold above the Shankly gates. When Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein sat down to write the musical Carousel and its...
The news from countries around the globe is appalling but we need to bear witness
Body representing independent media in country facing liquidation in further crackdown by Lukashenko regime