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There is growing pressure on environmental activists in the UK, the second most likely country in the world for protesters to ...
A panel at Index's latest magazine launch discussed the Trump administration’s attacks on state-funded media, the legal ...
Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues from Al Jazeera were killed in a targeted attack because they refused to be silenced ...
Transnational repression (TNR) is on the rise globally, fuelled by rapidly evolving technology, global democratic- ...
For years now people in Hong Kong have been perfecting the art of letter writing and sending them to the neighbours of ...
A new era of authoritarianism has dawned in the “land of liberty”. What can US political activists learn from those who defied Soviet repression?
Index on Censorship is the UK partner for the USA Coalition, which runs ‘Banned Books Week’. Banned Books Week was launched ...
There are many questions around how age verification works in practise and what its consequences could be for our online ...
The Winter 2023 issue of Index highlights comedians around the world who have been targeted for their comedy by oppressive regimes.
Russian guerrilla artists from the Voina art collective are facing criminal prosecution for their controversial brand of political street art. Nick Sturdee reports on the widespread frustration that ...
The message of one of our founders, Stephen Spender, was that Index wouldn’t be doing a good job if it didn’t keep an eye on attacks to free expression that happen on home soil. With this in mind and ...