The past week has been busy for Index and in Hong Kong. It is up to us all to ensure award winners and political prisoners are not forgotten
Jemimah Steinfeld
The reappearance of Stalin’s ghost in modern Russia
Denouncements of citizens for anti-Russian sentiment and punitive psychiatry are rising in the former Soviet Union
Who will protect freedom of expression now?
What terrible things will happen while we are all distracted by the clown in the White House?
Donald Trump’s re-election is disastrous for free speech
Today is a day of despair – but it is also a day for those of us who genuinely care about free expression to come together to protect and promote it
Georgian dream – or nightmare?
Ahead of a national election next week, Index CEO Jemimah Steinfeld visited Georgia’s capital Tbilisi. She observed that the country, formerly one of the most liberal in the post-Soviet bloc, could be on a path to autocracy
Is jail time for Just Stop Oil protesters justified?
When countries like the UK and the USA start punitively punishing peaceful but disruptive protesters, the world needs to be on watch
Breaking end-to-end encryption would be a disaster
Index launches campaign to highlight why politicians should not rush to add a “back door” to messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal
Back to school: a hard lesson for Hong Kong
Secondary school students are now going to be educated in Xi Jinping Thought to promote patriotism for China
The latest rubbish joke from China
An unexpected view of China and the Wall Street Journal’s sacking of a reporter named chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association hit the headlines this week
General Election 2024: We can’t assume Keir Starmer will be a champion of all things anti-censorship
Index has a long history with the UK’s new Prime Minister but we will still hold him to account on free expression
Are people in Israel getting the full story on Gaza?
The world is seeing a completely different war from the domestic audience
The death penalty is the new normal in Iran
Our weekly newsletter leads on the announcement of a sentence we all feared for rapper Toomaj Salehi