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What the Fuck!? podcast new episode: Punk poet Penny Rimbaud
The founder of punk anarchists Crass speaks about Donald Trump, the repressed British and his new album Arthur Rimbaud in Verdun
“His only crime is to believe that Egyptians deserve the most basic of human rights”
Karim Ennarah, EIPR’s criminal justice unit director, is facing fabricated charges of joining a terrorist group and spreading fake news
“Tanzanians want democracy, respect for their basic human rights and dignity” – Tundu Lissu
The Tanzanian opposition leader, who has been forced to flee the country, talks to Index about the recent election
Why a naked feminist statue should remain uncensored
Maggi Hambling’s A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft has been roundly criticised, with some trying to censor its nakedness
What the Fuck!? podcast new episode: Harry Potter actor Natalia Tena
The actor who played Nymphadora Tonks talks about why she gets angry about female genital cutting and what she is doing about it
The bloody consequences of Turkey’s clashes with the Kurds
In September, two men were abducted, beaten and thrown from a helicopter. One died, the other hospitalised. Journalists reporting the story have been targeted too
“Anxiety has always been part of Hong Kong’s handover story”
A new book on Hong Kong published this November called Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law by Michael C. Davis provides much needed insight and background into the current crackdown on rights in the city. We publish extracts from the book
Index launches weekly What the Fuck!? podcast with Alison Jackson
British artist and photographer talks about artistic freedom and driving a fake and half-naked Donald Trump around Manhattan
“Between the devil and the deep blue sea” – how Nigeria is looking to move forward from the #endSARS protests
Young Nigerians are coming together to make sure their voices heard
Forced motherhood is an infringement on free expression
As various countries around the world seek to make abortion illegal or hard to get, Orna Herr highlights the free expression implications
Journalists and media freedom under attack in Lukashenko’s Belarus
Volha Siakhovich writes from Belarus about the current conditions of journalists working in the country
