In the run up to the Belarusian presidential election, Index's Belarus researcher reflects on her own experience during ...

The new president has signed more than 100 directives that will alter the course of US policy. We look at how they will ...

Undemocratic states that seek to exploit soft power to hide their human rights abuses should be condemned, not celebrated ...

There are awards in the Arts, Campaigning and Journalism categories and a special award chosen by Index on Censorship’s ...

The Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender Diala Ayesh has been released, after spending almost a year in Israel’s ...

The country’s rich literary history has been plagued by censorship and book bans ...

What do you do when your culture has been destroyed? When your studios, galleries, and universities all lie in rubble? How do you plan to rebuild when war continues? And how do you find hope amidst ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement this week of changes to Meta’s content moderation policies appeared to primarily be about building trust. Trust among users. Trust among investors. And trust among the ...

For more than five decades, Syria has lived under a repressive regime that has made freedom of expression a distant dream. Under Bashar al-Assad, expression was curtailed by repressive laws and strict ...

This week, 7 January 2025 marks exactly ten years since the Charlie Hebdo attacks, when Islamist gunmen stormed the satirical magazine’s Paris editorial office and killed 11 people over cartoons of ...

Following the Charlie Hebdo attacks in 2015, the best-selling Turkish novelist wrote for Index about how writers are staying silent on their self-censorship ...

Maha Ghazal is a Syrian journalist, feminist and civil rights activist. She was previously the managing editor of the website Madar Al-Youm. She is also a member of the Executive Office of the Union ...