Journalists in Ukraine operate in a harsh environment. As tensions with Russia build, the grave situation demands attention
Ukraine journalists fight battle on all fronts
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
The most authoritarian British government since the Second World War?
The right to protest peacefully, the protection of human rights and the ability for journalists to reveal government wrongdoing are all under threat, writes Martin Bright
Boris Johnson’s Partygate is a distraction from the important issues
Aggression against protestors in Kazakhstan, hunger in Afghanistan and Covid deaths continue despite the scandals
Greece: Concern over criminal charges against investigative reporters
Seven organisations including Index are closely monitoring the cases of two journalists who reported on a major financial scandal
Kazakh family share horror of speaking up about Xinjiang
First he fled Xinjiang. Then Kazakhstan. And then Turkey. On 20 January 2021 Serikzhan Bilash, a prominent human rights defender and activist, travelled alone to the United States to seek asylum. He left behind his wife, Laila Adilzahn, and three...
Kazakhstan’s independent media and civil society shiver after protests
Demonstrations over fuel prices have lead to a crackdown and the arrival of Russian troops
Turkish-Armenian academic faces deportation from Greece over controversial views
Sevan Nişanyan believes he has been added to the country’s “list of undesirable foreigners” as a result of his controversial research
Index reiterates its support for Carole Cadwalladr as she faces SLAPP trial
We join seventeen other organisations in supporting the award-winning journalist who is facing a week-long defamation trial in London this week
As Russian troops move to border Ukraine history attacked
The closure of Memorial is an attack on Ukraine history, coming at a time of heightened concern about the country’s future
Belarus: Join the campaign to free our friends Andrei Aliaksandrau and Irina Zlobina
It is now a year since our former colleague and his partner were detained following Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s disputed election victory