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Bahraini hunger striker returns to protest after being hospitalised
Bahraini campaigner Ali Mushaima is returning to his protest site outside the Bahrain embassy in Knightsbridge, London, 24 hours after being hospitalised.
This week at Index: Remembering Anna Politkovskaya
This week Index remembered murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya and spoke out in support of human rights in Bahrain and Turkey.
Far right steps up anti-media campaign ahead of Swedish election
Sweden baked in record temperatures this summer, matched only by the increasingly heated political climate as it gears up for an unprecedentedly bitter and divisive general election
Habari RDC working to see young people’s issues taken into account
“We will train our bloggers so that they will be better equipped to confront these issues, but also to enter into a dialogue with the decision-makers”
Museum of Dissidence: “We want to rebuild Cuba but change will not be easy”
The Museum of Dissidence, which won the Index Freedom of Expression Awards Fellowship for Arts, is supporting a new generation of artists in Cuba to challenge the status quo
Illiberal democracies: Awash in media without plurality
Visitors to Eurasian countries — Turkey, Russia, Ukraine or, to a lesser extent, Azerbaijan — might be impressed by the sheer number of domestic television channels that offer news programming. But all the coverage doesn’t translate into media plurality.
Ramón Nse Esono Ebale: Drawing to create change in Equatorial Guinea
Ramón Nse Esono Ebale draws out of a desire to create a world that is different from the one he can see with his eyes. It was that desire that led to his arrest and detention in September 2017.
UN declares Nabeel Rajab’s imprisonment unlawful, warns arbitrary detention in Bahrain may amount to “crimes against humanity”
It finds that Rajab should never have been prosecuted and that Bahraini authorities employed “vague and overly broad” legal provisions to target him for his “political views and convictions”
Anti-social behaviour legislation allows for the arbitrary silencing of voices
During her time as director of the Manifesto Club, Josie Appleton has dealt with many Community Protection Notice and Public Space Protection Orders being served for non-criminal reasons
