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...
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...
Political parties introduce charges for journalists’ access to conferences. Alliance of media and free speech organisations warns any charges will restrict open democracy
Protests for women’s rights, widespread strikes, rampant inflation. Have we turned the clock back fifty years?
As Commonwealth leaders meet in Rwanda, few believe Boris Johnson’s assessment of the country. Index speaks with the adopted daughters of Hotel Rwanda’s Paul Rusesabagina, the jailed critic of President Kagame
People forget that Pride is all about protest and we should recognise that free expression is vital to positive change
Pride started as a way to give voice to the silenced, but it lost its way. Ahead of its 50th anniversary, a new protest movement has emerged
Index joins other organisations in calling for the UK Government to abandon proposals that would weaken or replace the Human Rights Act