LATEST FROM INDEX ON CENSORSHIP
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Don’t give up on Myanmar
The country has a vibrant future believes author Oliver Slow, despite the military junta's attack...
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Argument for urgent intervention in Jimmy Lai case laid bare in new report
Pressure on UK government to intervene in Lai case highlighted in a new report, which exposes the...
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Defying the Taliban – A stark reminder of the collapse of Afghan women’s rights
Last Thursday, human rights organisation Anotherway Now hosted a screening of the Sky News docume...
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India tightens grip on social media platforms
New rules that force platforms to "fact-check" content relating to government business are deeply...
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Modi’s India: The age of intolerance in the world’s biggest democracy
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The daily risks taken by Afghanistan’s female journalists
Life for women in the media has been bleak since the Taliban takeover, and experts don’t see that...
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Facebook policies put human rights defenders at risk
Laws designed to stop political ads being used for misinformation on Facebook are being used to t...
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Salma al-Shehab becomes the latest Saudi prisoner to go on hunger strike
The 34-year-old mother of two was sentenced to 34 years for exercising her freedom of expression
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Destroyed ballot boxes, arrests, assaults – Nigeria reels from latest elections
Violence around Nigeria’s elections was aimed at voters and at journalists. The country’s media p...
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In Mexico, a journalist is attacked every 13 hours. The government is to blame
Under fire from organised crime and from the government, reporters working in Mexico have been su...
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The harsh reality for Afghanistan’s journalists
Two reporters share a plea to the world not to forget them as they face intimidation from the Tal...
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Media outlets excluded from UK Home Secretary’s trip to Rwanda
Index raises second Council of Europe alert over exclusion of journalists seen as critical of Gov...
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Journalists battle for truth after Turkish earthquakes
Since February’s earthquakes, free speech NGO the Media and Law Studies Association has been moni...
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‘Thank Gary Lineker for being a true advocate for refugees’
A sports journalist, who can't work safely in Afghanistan anymore, tells us why Gary Lineker's st...
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Israel: Free expression hangs in the balance
The attack on the Supreme Court is just one way in which due process and dissent are coming under...
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Open up your doors as you promised
Even journalists who escape Taliban rule face deportation, starvation and imprisonment so the UK ...
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The UK Government must honour its pledge to resettle Afghans at-risk
The number of Afghan journalists and media workers who are in imminent danger remains incredibly ...
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Bunker Cabaret: From the bomb shelters of Kyiv to Somerset House
Ukranian collective explores the making of art in time of war
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Academic freedom under threat for more than 50% of world’s population
The ability to express and discuss ideas openly is being curtailed in univerisites, new data publ...
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UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition welcomes end of Realtid case
Index and other coalition members continue to call for urgent action to be taken against SLAPPs a...
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UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition reiterates its support for Carole Cadwalladr
Index joins other members of the coalition in welcoming court’s dismissal of majority of appeal i...
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The fates of Ukraine and Belarus are intertwined
A year on from the invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, the stakes in Belarus have never been higher
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Censoring Roald Dahl is not the answer, just a problem
Rewording Dahl's classics sets a worrying precedent. Instead of censoring his works we should inv...
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Do Chechens really support Putin’s war in Ukraine?
Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine mirrors the two bloody wars for independence in Chechnya. But...
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