Writing on the eve of Banned Books Week 2026, it’s important to highlight that book banning is not the work of the purity ...
During the Nepal floods, two phenomena unfolded in parallel – the disaster and a raft of fake images. Verification has become ...
Egyptian authorities detained six journalists from the Matsada2sh newsroom amid huge concerns around the treatment of independent media ...
The website of The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation (CFHK) has apparently been blocked in Hong Kong, the latest of a series of blockages in the city following the enactment of the ...
The beauty and power of Iran’s music is being strangled, with many musicians jailed and tortured purely for raising their voices against the regime’s viciousness and in harmony with those protesting ...
In a recent article in Byline Times, Neal Lawson the executive director of Compass, a “good society” cross-party campaign group, asked why the UK government couldn’t just ban lying in politics. This ...
This article first appeared in Volume 54, Issue 2 of our print edition of Index on Censorship, titled Land of the Free?: Trump’s war on speech at home and abroad, published on 21 July 2025. Read more ...
This article first appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of Index on Censorship, The monster unleashed: How Hungary’s illliberal vision is seducing the Western world published on 2 April 2026. Algerian ...
As part of our series of dissident profiles, Index looks at Nasrin Sotoudeh, the imprisoned Iranian human rights lawyer who has made a career of defending political activists ...
A prominent journalist in the Maldives is in a critical condition in hospital after being stabbed in the neck. Ismail “Hilath” Rasheed ...
On 21 September, an editor at one of Nigeria’s leading newspapers found murdered in his home in Lagos. Bayo Ohu was the associate political editor of the The Guardian. The killing is thought to have ...
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