Although its government has been working hard to promote a positive image of Azerbaijan abroad, at home, it continues to crack down on citizens’ ability to exercise their basic rights and fundamental freedoms, Rebecca Vincent writes
The collision between climate science and energy politics, and threats to freedom of communication, are playing out differently in the United States and Canada, Rick Piltz, founder and director of Climate Science Watch, writes
Exhibition in Austria mocking Hungary’s far right is labelled “racist” by ambassador
Government crackdowns on free expression in China and Egypt have shown disturbing similarities with repressive tactics used by the two regimes to silence dissent, Shahira Amin writes
Sindh province announced last week it would ban mobile messaging apps like Viber, Whatsapp and Skype for three months. Zofeen T. Ebrahim investigates the fallout
The regulation of social media in India has been a subject of great controversy, Mahima Kaul writes
Sudan has widespread and affordable internet access – the problem is the oppressive regime, writes Dalia Haj-Omar
ProPublica and This American Life, both which I love, are making some waves for a story highlighting the risks of taking too much acetaminophen. But Kevin Anderson asks why they spent over $750K to report on facts in plain view.
With a long history of combating official censorship, artists have a large role in Ugandan society, writes Edward Ronald Sekyewa
To celebrate National Poetry Day, Index is publishing some of our favourite poems from our archives. This, from Russian dissident poet Natalya Gorbanevskaya, was published in our very first issue