LATEST FROM INDEX ON CENSORSHIP
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The SLAPP stickers
A conversation between a wokey comedian, Rosie Holt, and her wonky lawyer brother, Charlie Holt, ...
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When is a landslide not a landslide?
It’s a question which Vladimir Putin has clearly been thinking about after what would ordinarily ...
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The journalists being threatened with artificial intelligence
Perpetrators of gender-based violence are wielding a new digital weapon against Pakistani journal...
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Why withdrawal of labour is the ultimate expression of freedom
Forty years on from the miners' strike, our CEO says we are duty-bound to uphold and defend the r...
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New Assange film hopes to spur action
The director of a forthcoming documentary on Julian Assange speaks to Index about how he hopes it...
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Navalny told them not to give up – and they didn’t
People across Russia risked arrest to pay their respects to the dead opposition leader during a '...
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Remembering the women who pay the ultimate price for freedom
On International Women's Day, our CEO Ruth Anderson reflects on another deadly 12 months for fema...
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Mexico: Obrador’s attacks on freedom reach new heights
The Mexican president is attacking independent institutions and publicly shared a critical journa...
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Calls to sanction architects of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act grow
Uganda's LGBTQ+ community live in fear for their lives following the passage of draconian legisla...
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Ukraine’s resilience shows us how to stand up to oppression
The two-year anniversary of Russia's illegal war in Ukraine reminds us that even in the depths of...
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UK, USA continue attack of protest rights
Recent incidents add to an already worrying picture of the protest landscape in the respective co...
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Index reiterates our urgent call for Assange to be freed
The final stage of Assange's UK appeal begins today. The international community must unite in th...
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Pakistan election surprise highlights ways to fight censorship
During the recent elections Pakistan saw internet blackouts and a media narrative dictated by the...
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Alexei Navalny dead
Putin's fiercest critic has died in an Arctic Circle penal colony. An Index writer remembers his ...
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Love in the time of dissent
A week in which many are celebrating their love has turned the focus on those dissidents who are ...
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The deadly challenges of reporting on Sudan’s “forgotten war”
The simple act of asking questions, or holding a camera, places a target on your back and hundred...
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China’s feminists walk a tightrope
Within China's extremely censored environment, some conversations on feminism are seemingly untou...
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Joke’s on Lukashenka speaking rubbish Belarusian. Or is it?
Belarus’ belligerent leader is both tyrannical and comical. It’s fodder for the nation’s comics –...
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We have a duty to protect our politicians
The threats faced by Mike Freer and Nikki Haley are not isolated incidents but symptoms of a broa...
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Why a manipulated image of a politician is the tip of the AI-ceberg
The role of traditional media as a trusted source of news is under threat from artificial intelli...
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Sport faces growing censorship problem over the Israel-Gaza war
Governing bodies are becoming increasingly heavy-handed in their attempts to remain neutral in th...
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The fragility of freedom
Recent history has shown us our own naïveté of hoping for an end to horrors like the Holocaust
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Index on Censorship launches search for new chief executive
Freedom of expression charity seeks new leader to help write the next chapter in the organisation...
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Moments of Freedom winner announced
Agfhan reporter's flight to safety in Paris from the Taliban is the moment you chose as part of o...
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