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 physics laboratory Cern ends co-operation with Russia and Belarus over the Ukraine war, Index talks to exiled scientists ...

Since Iranian singer-songwriter Gola fled her home country in 2011, she has continued her fight for women's rights in exile Twenty five years ago this autumn the Berlin Wall was pulled down and a wave ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...