Chloé Troadec is a freelance journalist and an interpreter focused on the Middle East. She is the co-founder of the Rojava ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The Trump administration is moving to shutter these essential media outlets. This will aid autocrats and further silence voices of dissent As a woman and a journalist, I have been living my worst ...