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Dissidents, spies and the lies that came in from the cold

by Martin Bright | 14 Apr 2022

Index on Censorship started at the front line of an ideological war

Index condemns lawsuit against Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins

by Index on Censorship | 13 Apr 2022

21 organisations say lawsuit issued by Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin is a SLAPP

Switching from cute animals to war: A Ukrainian children’s author speaks out

by Index on Censorship | 8 Apr 2022

Kateryna Yegorushkina is a Ukrainian children’s writer and publisher from a town close to Kyiv. Here, in our second video on the state of free expression in Ukraine, Kateryna speaks of her own situation as a writer and mother. She also draws...

Today’s dissidents in Russia: tech savvy and willing to risk it all

by Guilherme Osinski | 6 Apr 2022

Despite the huge risks attached to defying Putin, a handful of Russians are still speaking up. We profile six here

Hungary elections 2022: What does another Orban term mean for freedoms?

by Jemimah Steinfeld | 1 Apr 2022

The godfather of “illiberal democracy” – Viktor Orban – is fighting his fiercest election battle to date. What exactly is on the line when Hungarians head to the polls on Sunday?

Call for an end to beatings and abductions of journalists and protesters in Ukraine

by Martin Bright | 1 Apr 2022

Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the Centre for Civil Liberties in Kyiv, condemns the actions of Russian troops

Beijing’s fearless foe with God on his side

by Index on Censorship | 30 Mar 2022

Jimmy Lai Chi-Ying, Hong Kong’s 74-year-old self-made billionaire, is a dissident. His cause is freedom. For championing this cause, he has been jailed since December 2020. One of the crimes he was found guilty of was lighting a candle in public to...