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Israel’s trajectory into a nascent police state
Israel’s push towards authoritarianism by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition is not sl...
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The enforced silence of Afghanistan’s women
Taliban-enacted "vice and virtue" laws have taken away both voices and human rights
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Modi’s plans to muzzle India’s internet
The Indian government may have withdrawn the latest version of its Broadcasting Services (Regulat...
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The great X-odus
People are leaving X by the droves and with good reason. But it still has many strengths, not lea...
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The painful death of Syria’s independent media
A number of independent media outlets opened in the wake of the Arab Spring but lack of funding a...
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Why Project 2025 is a threat to a free media
A prototype for Donald Trump in power will restrict local independent journalism
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Banned: school librarians shushed over LGBT+ books
A special investigation reveals more than half of UK school librarians surveyed by Index have bee...
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Violent repression and torture in Zimbabwe on eve of major development conference
Index reports on the government’s increasing brutality towards protesters and human rights activists
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The importance of local journalism to understanding the UK riots
Mill Media with its network of local journalists was able to spot the rising far-right threat to ...
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Belarus: If you want freedom, take it
Today marks the fourth anniversary of the disputed election in Belarus that saw Alyaksandr Lukash...
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Russia, disinformation and two Olympic boxers
Female boxer Imane Khelif is guaranteed a silver or gold today at the Paris Olympics but her achi...
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How many letters can they shred?
The Belarusian president-elect in exile, denied her victory by Lukashenka, writes exclusively for...
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Undercover freedom fund
We talk to the founders of Bysol, a non-profit humanitarian foundation using cryptocurrency to he...
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UK journalists fall victim to new police tactics
Journalists covering protests in the UK are still being arrested, even before they have arrived a...
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Vladimir Kara-Murza: The dissident spirit of Russia
The historian and writer represents views which run counter to the authoritarian tendency that ha...
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The unstilled voice of Gazan theatre
Laura Silvia Battaglia recalls the last play she saw in Gaza and talks to its director today abou...
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Russia: Index welcomes release of Vladimir Kara-Murza and Evan Gershkovich from jail
The vocal critic of Vladimir Putin and the Wall Street Journal reporter are among a number of peo...
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First they came for the Greens
A look at the violent attacks being carried out against Germany’s Green Party as politicians stan...
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The Bangladesh government has been killing student protesters but reporting it has become nearly impossible
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her ministers are trying to cover up what the government has don...
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Kenya: Young reporters and NGOs targeted as part of clampdown on Gen Z protests
Our reporter talks to a young journalist and the director of a young people’s organisation who ha...
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Iran: Complaint to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in response to the ongoing judicial persecution of Toomaj Salehi
Index on Censorship, Human Rights Foundation and Doughty Street Chambers make submission on behal...
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Ukraine | A chronicle of censorship
A TV giant in the USA is preventing a documentary film about the Babyn Yar massacre being shown
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The latest rubbish joke from China
An unexpected view of China and the Wall Street Journal’s sacking of a reporter named chair of th...
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How Russia is shaping the Syrian media narrative
The way that announcements about illnesses and deaths are reported shows signs of external influe...
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