As we mark the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, we should remember that democratic change can come very quickly
Anything is possible: 35 years on from the fall of the Iron Curtain
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Martin Bright
Martin Bright has over 30 years of experience as a journalist, working for the Observer, the Guardian and the New Statesman among others. He has worked on several high-profile freedom of expression cases often involving government secrecy. He broke the story of Iraq War whistleblower Katharine Gun, which was made into the movie Official Secrets (2019) starring Keira Knightley.
Index pays tribute to Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna who has died in Russian detention
The war reporter wrote from the front line for several Ukrainian news outlets before she was captured by Russian forces last year, and has now died in currently unknown circumstances
The corporate silencing of the truth about Ukraine’s “Holocaust by bullets”
Index co-hosted the private UK premiere of an important film about the Babyn Yar massacre to persuade CBS News to release key footage
Bread, Work, Freedom
Afghan women gather in Tirana for global summit to defy the Taliban
The great X-odus
People are leaving X by the droves and with good reason. But it still has many strengths, not least in connecting Index to dissidents
The importance of local journalism to understanding the UK riots
Mill Media with its network of local journalists was able to spot the rising far-right threat to asylum hotels well before their national counterparts in London
Vladimir Kara-Murza: The dissident spirit of Russia
The historian and writer represents views which run counter to the authoritarian tendency that has dominated the country for so much of its recent history
Ukraine | A chronicle of censorship
A TV giant in the USA is preventing a documentary film about the Babyn Yar massacre being shown
Exhibition about Russian political prisoners cancelled over Israel-Gaza row
A London art gallery has pulled an exhibition about Russian dissidents because an Israeli artist refused to condemn “the Zionist regime”
Julian Assange released: What now?
The plea deal reached between the WikiLeaks founder and the US government sets a worrying precedent
No D-Day for the Channel Islands
The recent inquiry into slave labour camps on Alderney showed much of the story of the islands remains untold
We the screamers
The atrocity deniers are everywhere and we need to scream over them with the truth