Turkey: Writers on trial

In this issue, Index reports on the case of a large number of leading Turkish writers on trial in Istanbul who face long prison sentences if convicted.

Dangerous writers

In this issue, Index publishes the work of forbidden and persecuted writers and poets as well as their experiences under censorship.

Scholarship and its enemies

In this issue, Index explores varieties of academic censorship in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Latin America, the West, Czechoslovakia and the USSR. 

China: In Mao’s cave

In this issue, Index examines the Chinese Communist Party's cultural policy since its accession to power in 1949.