Social media spaces are shrinking as freedom of speech is further eroded in Uganda, leaving no safe haven for critical ...

Hong Kong, Georgia, India, the USA – places once regarded as relatively liberal – are now part of a troubling trend where ...

Hamdan Ballal, the Oscar-winning Palestinian co-director of No Other Land, is released from a police station in the West Bank ...

Filmmaker and actor Gavin Hood reflects on his relationship with the late South African novelist, playwright and director, ...

As huge protests continue to take place, harassment and violence are escalating Twenty five years ago this autumn the Berlin Wall was pulled down and a wave of euphoria swept not just across that city ...

On 28 March a primary court in the coastal city of Mahdia, sentenced two atheist friends, Jabeur Mejri and Ghazi Beji, to seven and a half years in prison, and to a fine of 1200 Tunisian Dinars ...

Join Index on Censorship for a powerful Belarus Liberty Day gathering outside the Embassy of Belarus to demand freedom for political prisoners unjustly detained by Lukashenka’s regime. In solidarity ...

Protest is in Index’s DNA. We were founded following calls for help from Russian intellectuals Pavel and Ivy Litvinov and Larisa Bogoraz – people who faced constant persecution for their roles in the ...

We, the undersigned, reaffirm our support for press freedom and a free media that is able to operate without coercion by, or interference from, government – and call on the United States to protect ...