The men in black who patrolled the corridors of Baku’s Olympic Stadium indicated the level of surveillance that activists are now under
COP29: Azerbaijan’s flagrant human rights abuses undermine its role as climate conference host
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
The dangers of boycotting Russian science
As physics laboratory Cern ends co-operation with Russia and Belarus over the Ukraine war, Index talks to exiled scientists
A big week to remember
The past week has been busy for Index and in Hong Kong. It is up to us all to ensure award winners and political prisoners are not forgotten
Spiked stories revealed under parliamentary privilege
MPs from across the political spectrum have spoken about the curdling impact of legal threats and called for action on an anti-SLAPP law
Index on Censorship announces 2024 Freedom of Expression award winners
Campaigners, artists and journalists from Iran, Palestine, Russia and Uganda are named in awards ceremony in London this week
The reappearance of Stalin’s ghost in modern Russia
Denouncements of citizens for anti-Russian sentiment and punitive psychiatry are rising in the former Soviet Union
How Putin’s Russia is weaponising psychiatry against its critics
The Russian leader is revisiting the Cold War playbook by using mental manipulation to silence dissidents and its use is growing
Who will protect freedom of expression now?
What terrible things will happen while we are all distracted by the clown in the White House?
Anything is possible: 35 years on from the fall of the Iron Curtain
As we mark the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, we should remember that democratic change can come very quickly
Press freedom and journalist safety in peril, rising polarisation and a climate of fear – findings of the press freedom mission to Georgia
After a fact-finding mission to Georgia on the state of free expression, a consortium of organisations, including Index on Censorship, present their findings.