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 great X-odus
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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.
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
Solidarity, Assange-style
Our editor-at-large opens up about his personal, complicated relationship with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
Moments of Freedom winner announced
Agfhan reporter’s flight to safety in Paris from the Taliban is the moment you chose as part of our year-end campaign
The suffering of Wael al-Dahdouh in “deadliest conflict for journalists”
Al Jazeera’s bureau chief has lost many family members in the Gaza conflict including his son Hamza, one of 76 Palestinian journalists who are reported dead. Index speaks to a fellow journalist and family friend about the tragedy
50 years on wounds still raw from Chile coup
The country is still divided over the dictator’s legacy, as violence over the weekend shows