News and Features

Index expresses concern over Julian Assange extradition

Home Secretary Priti Patel’s decision will have a chilling effect on journalism and put the Wikileaks founder at risk

Journalist Dom Phillips and Bruno Araújo Pereira went missing in the Amazon in Brazil. Index spoke to one of the people who last saw them

Cineworld has cancelled all UK screenings of a film in what sets a worrying precedent

Belarusian journalist and poet Sabina Brilo (below) on her friend Andrei Aliaksandrau who goes on trial today

Human rights groups who have been campaigning for several years for the release of the blogger and human rights defender can finally celebrate

Our former colleague writes to his supporters as his trial on charges of treason opens in Belarus

Zhou Fengsuo was a student at the time of the Tiananmen Square protests. He tells Jemimah Steinfeld how peaceful times turned to horror

by Mark Stimpson | 1 Jun 2022

The Iranian government is holding propaganda events while attempting to silence protests against corruption following a building collapse in Abadan

by Mark Stimpson | 27 May 2022

A reconciliation dialogue promised after the death last April of the central African country’s president is in turmoil

Our former colleague Andrei Aliaksandrau reaches another bitter milestone as a political prisoner in Belarus