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
When countries like the UK and the USA start punitively punishing peaceful but disruptive protesters, the world needs to be on watch
Index launches campaign to highlight why politicians should not rush to add a “back door” to messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal
Secondary school students are now going to be educated in Xi Jinping Thought to promote patriotism for 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
Index has a long history with the UK’s new Prime Minister but we will still hold him to account on free expression
The world is seeing a completely different war from the domestic audience
Our weekly newsletter leads on the announcement of a sentence we all feared for rapper Toomaj Salehi
Campaigner Bill Browder calls the jailed Putin critic “the type of person that our world needs the most”
A great privilege of working at Index is, and always has been, the amazing people we get to encounter, such as Iranian musician Toomaj Salehi
The Russian-American writer was at the centre of a controversy yet things were not exactly as they first seemed
Journalists have been attacked and killed, individuals have been silenced and protests banned as a result of the conflict