No one is safe it seems from the self-proclaimed Father of the Nation
Tyrant of the year 2025: Vladimir Putin
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Who is 2025’s Tyrant of the Year?
Choose from our shortlist of 10 authoritarian leaders and vote on who you think has done most to crack down on freedom of expression this year
Frank Furedi: The new face of right-wing free speech
Index talks to the director of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium which is hosting a conference this week entitled the Battle for the Soul of Europe
Ukraine: Trump’s peace plan is none of those three things
The 28-point outline has clear Russian origins and will not end the war plus Zelensky has his own problems
Dissidents have started challenging Saudi Arabia and Bahrain through the UK courts
Victims of unlawful state surveillance are refusing to back down
New report: Breaking encryption is legally and practically unworkable
Publication sets out our position on why governments should not break end-to-end encryption (E2EE), widely used to protect dissidents
Freedom of speech needs freedom of thought
A new book has convinced our writer that we should be thinking about how our right to free speech contributes to the public good
Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya among winners of Index on Censorship 2025 Freedom of Expression Awards
The awards celebrate those who have had significant impact fighting censorship anywhere in the world
A warning from Hungary – the BBC must stick to its rules and avoid political pressure
As the BBC in Britain faces a possible multi-billion dollar lawsuit from US president Donald Trump as well as political pressure at home, a Hungarian journalist reminds us of the importance of an impartial public service broadcaster to democracy
History is being written by the AI victors
Erasing inconvenient truths isn’t new but technology is making it so much easier