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CATEGORY: Asia and Pacific
The dangers of “red tagging” and other lessons from the Philippines
Rey Valmores, a 25-year-old political activist from Quezon City, on the challenges faced by campaigners in the Philippines in advance of this week’s inauguration of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jnr
Contents – The battle for Ukraine: Artists, journalists and dissidents respond
The summer issue of Index magazine concentrated its efforts on the developing situation between Russia and Ukraine and consequential effects around...
Beijing is rewriting Hong Kong’s handover history. We must not allow it
Residents of Hong Kong are going to be given “fortune bags” this month. Millions of people in the city of 7.4 million will receive bags containing a...
Raised voices: why we must continue to listen
The news coming in from Belarus, Brazil, Hong Kong and Russia is devastating, writes our CEO Ruth Smeeth
China’s fifth most wanted democracy advocate looks back at Tiananmen
Zhou Fengsuo was a student at the time of the Tiananmen Square protests. He tells Jemimah Steinfeld how peaceful times turned to horror
Syria passes draconian cybercrime laws
Country is latest to criminalise vaguely defined fake news to target human rights activists and journalists
Attacks on journalists covering protests increase says new report
The latest annual report from the Council of Europe safety of journalists platform makes for worrying reading on media freedom
Apple’s Chinese and Russian takedowns come under scrutiny
A new report by GreatFire and whistleblower Ashley Gjovik reveals the tech giant complies with far more requests from the two governments than elsewhere
In trying to protect us online, legislators risk silencing us
We all want to protect each other from seeing the worst of humanity but we have no right not to be offended
Shanghai lockdown shows how far Xi will go to control population
Criticism of China’s Covid-Zero policy is being censored online
Beijing’s fearless foe with God on his side
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...
