Our CEO Ruth Anderson reflects on the theme of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day
Ordinary people, extraordinary times
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Those who refuse to despair
Today, 27 January, is the birthday of our former colleague Andrei Aliaksandrau, another one spent in jail thanks to his opposition to the regime of dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka in Belarus
New play gives a voice to the forgotten Crimean Tatars
The powerful work tells the stories of indigenous Tatar dissidents and their families on the Russian-occupied peninsula
Major new global free expression index sees UK ranking stumble across academic, digital and media freedom
A major new global ranking index tracking the state of free expression is published today
How to request access to closed files on the Royal Family
Help Index on Censorship in its campaign to #EndRoyalSecrecy
Royal secrecy surveyed
As part of our special report Index sent a survey to 28 historians and journalists who work with archives related to the Royal Family. We received 10 responses. The majority wanted to remain anonymous – interesting in and of itself
Cause for alarm: Author Zinovy Zinik in conversation with Martin Bright
Pushkin House invites you to a joint celebration of Zinovy Zinik’s collection of short stories No Cause for Alarm (2022) and the winter issue of the Index on Censorship magazine, which features one of his stories. The publication of Zinovy Zinik’s...
Belarus: Free Andrei and Irina now
Index on Censorship and ARTICLE 19 call for charges against human rights defenders to be dropped
Secrets, lies and a costly legal battle
A historian has paid dearly in his quest to access archives on Mountbatten, which should have been readily available. Here he writes about the personal toll
2023: No calm water ahead
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...