Index rounds up of some of the key stories covering censorship and free expression from the past seven days
The week in free expression 24 October – 31 October
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An exceptional editor: a tribute to Judith Vidal-Hall who reinvented Index magazine after the end of the Cold War
Former Index editor Jo Glanville pays tribute to a journalist who introduced a western audience to a diverse range of writers and artists
Do the dead have free expression?
Index explores the issues around whether AI should be used to bring the deceased back to life
Israeli society is not a monolith
Jewish-Palestinian group Standing Together is working on the front line of Israel’s battered peace movement
Remembering Ivan Klíma
We honour the late-Czech novelist and playwright by sharing his short story
There’s only room for one god in China
Churchgoers in China outnumber members of the Communist Party and Xi Jinping is now cracking down hard
The trauma of being Lukashenka’s prisoner
Following Belarus’s shock release of a group of political prisoners in August and September, Index went to meet them
The week in free expression 17 October – 24 October
Index rounds up of some of the key stories covering censorship and free expression from the past seven days
Police in Islamabad raid the press club in an escalation of Pakistan’s attack on the media
Akbar Notezai travelled to the capital to talk exclusively to some of the journalists who were physically assaulted
Reports of Urdu’s death are greatly exaggerated
An exploration of Urdu’s origins, its rich literary tradition and its increasing popularity among the young as a language of resistance