Index on Censorship is concerned at the lawsuits that have been filed against journalist Malachi O’Doherty and columnist Ruth Dudley Edwards. Both are being sued individually by Sinn Féin politician Gerry Kelly MLA, who is claiming aggravated...
A celebrated Croatian journalist writes an exclusive essay on what a refugee should pack in their suitcase and how they must be prepared to learn a whole new language
Kyaw Min Yu and Phyo Zayar Thaw were prominent voices in the democracy movement in Myanmar. But on 25 July 2022, state news outlet Global New Light of Myanmar released a statement claiming that they had been executed on the grounds of “terror...
Apps like Telegram and WhatsApp provide ways for human rights defenders and journalists to communicate without fear of discovery by authoritarian governments
Dominic Raab to announce legislative measures that includes recommendations from coalition co-led by Index on Censorship
“Unintended consequences”, “ideologically incoherent”, “won’t change culture or make us safer”. I have written all these words and many more about the British Government’s Online Safety Bill. Index on Censorship has spent the last eighteen months...
Anatoly Kuznetsov is the author of Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel. His memoir is a masterpiece of Ukrainian literature and a testament to the 30,000 Jews massacred at Babyn Yar (the Ukrainian spelling), Kyiv in September 1941. Today it...
Political parties introduce charges for journalists’ access to conferences. Alliance of media and free speech organisations warns any charges will restrict open democracy
Our former colleague writes from prison as his trial is suspended for two months
Journalists in Turkey are once again being targeted in one of the country’s largest Kurdish-majority cities, explains a director from the Media and Law Studies Association