The rich and powerful are increasingly acting with impunity to silence, sometimes permanently, those who seek to shine a light on their activities
Journalists have a “right to life”
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All the news that’s fake to print
Index on Censorship’s new editor rounds up the stories that have made headlines this week including disinformation around the Florida hurricane
Telling fact from fiction
Journalistic “black holes”, such as in Gaza and Sudan, curtail people’s ability to understand geopolitics and conflict
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
Who holds the pen on scrutinising the most powerful?
The influence wielded by newspapers has come into sharp focus in the past week
Two plus two equals five in US presidential debate
The adjective Orwellian is overused but the surreal ABC News debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris can only be described that way
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 enforced silence of Afghanistan’s women
Taliban-enacted “vice and virtue” laws have taken away both voices and human rights
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
The Bangladesh government has been killing student protesters but reporting it has become nearly impossible
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her ministers are trying to cover up what the government has done and is blaming external “terrorists” and opposition parties