As our former colleague spends his 100th day in detention, Christine Jardine MP joins our call for his immediate and unconditional release
100 days in prison in Belarus: MP calls for Andrei Aliaksandrau’s release
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
British whistleblower held overnight in Croatian psychiatric hospital
Oil industry exec arrested on holiday in 2020 hospitalised after embassy alerted police
Russia: Index expresses concern over the arrest of Doxa journalists
Student journalism is a building block of media freedom, says Index CEO
What price press freedom in Northern Ireland?
Journalists continue to be threatened as tensions escalate in the province
Russia: Drop all charges against Yulia Tsvetkova
Award-winning artist faces six years in jail for her work promoting body positivity and women’s rights
Impartiality and independence of police watchdog questioned by whistleblower
A report on the policing of protests supported Priti Patel before evidence-gathering was complete and was influenced by bias against non-violent dissent
A letter to HMIC head Sir Tom Winsor on protest policing
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The following are extracts from a letter to Sir Tom Winsor, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, from Alice O'Keeffe, an associate editor who worked on the HMIC report, Getting the balance right: An...
Twenty-four organisations express solidarity with the Swedish media outlet Realtid
Index among those bodies supporting journalists ahead of the first hearing in their UK defamation case
We defend the right to protest, even during a pandemic
Demonstrations by design are meant to disrupt normal activity and to annoy and irritate the establishment
Jess Phillips: Violence against women and girls begins and ends with censorship
The outpouring of grief in the wake of the death of Sarah Everard is not just because of our sorrow at her loss. Women have been self censoring on behalf of society