It is five decades since a government whistleblower leaked a 7,000-page report into US involvement in Vietnam
Pentagon Papers: Daniel Ellsberg speaks 50 years on
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Mark Stimpson
Mark is associate editor at Index on Censorship
Navalny writes from his penal colony: “Books are our everything”
The jailed critic and opponent of Putin is sending messages via Instagram, detailing his ill-treatment
Heberto Padillo’s ‘confession’ 50 years on
As Cuba once again cracks down on artists and intellectuals, twenty have joined together with artist Coco Fusco to recreate the Cuban poet’s act of public penance
Xinjiang: “I have no regrets on speaking out”
Newcastle University academic Dr Joanne Smith Finley believes that China has lost “an erstwhile ally” in sanctioning her
Peter Calvocoressi
The historian and wartime codebreaker was one of the four original trustees of the charity behind Index on Censorship
Daphne Caruana Galizia: a small step towards justice
Vincent Muscat’s guilty plea has led to charges against others in the case of the murder of the Maltese investigative journalist
Index calls for the release of Andrei Aliaksandrau
Former Index writer has been arrested and forced to give a confession for his part in protests
Ruhollah Zam: 27 July 1978 – 12 December 2020
The founder of the Amadnews channel, a critic of the Iranian government, has been executed for ‘spreading corruption on Earth’
What the Fuck!? podcast new episode: Punk poet Penny Rimbaud
The founder of punk anarchists Crass speaks about Donald Trump, the repressed British and his new album Arthur Rimbaud in Verdun
“His only crime is to believe that Egyptians deserve the most basic of human rights”
Karim Ennarah, EIPR’s criminal justice unit director, is facing fabricated charges of joining a terrorist group and spreading fake news
What the Fuck!? podcast new episode: Harry Potter actor Natalia Tena
The actor who played Nymphadora Tonks talks about why she gets angry about female genital cutting and what she is doing about it
Index launches weekly What the Fuck!? podcast with Alison Jackson
British artist and photographer talks about artistic freedom and driving a fake and half-naked Donald Trump around Manhattan