Bahar al-Assad is using the natural disaster that has killed thousands to launder his reputation internationally while ordinary Syrians suffer
The silence after the earthquake in northwestern Syria is deafening
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CATEGORY: Turkey
Turkey’s devastating earthquake is no excuse to grab rights
Erdogan’s state of emergency must not last longer than is absolutely necessary to deliver a humanitarian response to the disaster
The shock waves from Turkey’s Twitter restriction
Criticism of the Turkish government in the wake of this week’s deadly earthquakes led to the blocking of the social media platform
Iran protests: “Mahsa” Amini does not exist
The name of the woman murdered by Iran’s “morality police” was Jina Amini but Kurds in the country cannot use their real names, says British-Kurdish writer and organiser Elif Sarican
“Imagine the conversation between Bolsonaro and Erdogan”
Protests during mourning for Queen Elizabeth have been distasteful but not illegal. How should we express our feelings about some of the guests attending Monday’s state funeral?
Kurdish journalists arrested as Turkey flexes its muscles
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
Contents – The battle for Ukraine: Artists, journalists and dissidents respond
The summer issue of Index magazine concentrated its efforts on the developing situation between Russia and Ukraine and consequential effects around Europe and the world. We decided to give voice to journalists, artists and dissidents who chose to...
Nominees for the 2022 Freedom of Expression Awards – Arts
Meet the three shortlisted artists for this year’s award
Contents – Index at 50: The battles won, lost and currently raging
The spring issue of Index magazine is special. We are celebrating 50 years of history and to such a milestone we've decided to look back at the thorny path that brought us here. Editors from our five decades of life have accepted our invitation to...
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...