Index looks back on 100 years of the Chinese Communist Party and how their censorship laws continue to shape the lives of people around the world...
Contents – China’s global brand: a century of silencing dissent
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CATEGORY: Asia and Pacific
The human face and the boot
Celebrated author Ma Jian reflects on the terrible legacy of the Chinese Communist Party in its centenary year
Myanmar: Poets, celebrities and journalists detained by military
The popular poet and comedian Zarganar, and the co-founder of news channel Mizzima have been detained as junta continues crackdown
The harassment of international journalists in China is becoming normalised
Index stands in support of the BBC’s China correspondent John Sudworth who has fled to Taiwan with his family
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
Why what is happening in Hong Kong and Xinjiang is not an internal affair
People are being arrested, being disappeared and are dying on our watch
Film awards season: Journalism and activism in the spotlight
Movies on social justice and investigative journalism dominate the nominations for major awards at the Oscars, the Golden Globes and the Baftas this year
It is women who are paying the ultimate price for their beliefs
Young protestors and reporters have given their lives in the past week in Myanmar and Afghanistan
Journalists held in Insein prison, Myanmar’s “darkest hell-hole”
Reporters covering the pro-demcracy protests are being held in a notorious military-run prison in Yangon
Index condemns the removal of Radio Television Hong Kong’s director of broadcasting
Veteran journalist Leung Ka-wing has been replaced by a civil servant six months before his contract was due to expire