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CATEGORY: Asia and Pacific
Ruth Smeeth: “From Ethiopia to Hong Kong, we will not abandon you”
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="114148" img_size="full" add_caption="yes" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Following the news this week...
The view from Hong Kong in 1997: an Index reading list
A reading list of articles from the Index archive when Hongkongers were wondering what the handover from Britain to China would mean
Was Hong Kong’s biggest ever protest in vain?
On the one year anniversary of the biggest ever protest that took place in Hong Kong to fight against an erosion of freedoms, historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom looks at the outcomes of a protest movement that changed China 100 years ago
“You cannot report on anything that is not confirmed by the government,” Indian journalists report
“It’s as if media is an opponent. It is as if asking questions of the government is crime, or a politically motivated exercise,” Indian journalist Anuradha Sharma reports on journalism under threat.
Index calls on governments to ensure encrypted tools are available to public
Index joined 52 other civil society organisations as well as private companies and security researchers in calling on governments to allow technology companies to offer strong encryption tools such as Signal or WhatsApp to the public.
This Week at Index: Muscat is going – but not soon enough
This week, Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced that he would resign in January – news which was welcomed by all those who have been protesting regularly for him to quit – but which also prompted calls that he should go immediately
This Week at Index: Freedom of expression is under threat, and we need your help defending it
We are facing more demands for our assistance and expertise than ever before and we urgently need more funding to meet that need
This Week at Index: Meet Badiucao, China’s artful dissident
The rebel Chinese cartoonist was in London last week and we caught up with him for a revealing video interview
Podcast: Border forces with Peppermint, Ariana Drehsler and Steven Borowiec
The autumn Index on Censorship magazine podcast with Peppermint, Ariana Drehsler and Steven Borowiec exploring how travel restrictions at borders are limiting the flow of free thought and ideas