Happy New Year! I think we can all agree, regardless of where we live, that 2022 was a tumultuous year. There was seemingly a new crisis every day. Totalitarian regimes moving against their populations became increasingly normal, from Iran to...
Our CEO Ruth Anderson reflects on the events of the past 12 months, yet another year of challenges to human rights around the world
Choose from our shortlist of 12 despots and vote on who you think has done most to crack down on freedom of expression this year
“You can usually tell the quality of a tyrant’s credentials by the number of people he has thrown in jail on spurious grounds and Europe’s last dictator, Alyanksandr Lukashenka, is no exception,” says Index associate editor Mark Frary. Lukashenka...
Index and ARTICLE 19 call on Belarusian authorities to quash prison terms and release our former colleague, his wife and others from the BelaPAN news agency
Protests during mourning for Queen Elizabeth have been distasteful but not illegal. How should we express our feelings about some of the guests attending Monday’s state funeral?
Censorship of communications means that those detained by Lukashenka’s regime are not free to express themselves openly
Index on Censorship has always supported the theatre of resistance, and our Winter 2021 magazine even had this issue as its main theme. In Belarus, for example, organisations such as Belarus Free Theatre are crucial to fighting Lukashenka’s...
Our former colleague writes from prison as his trial is suspended for two months
As Andrei Aliaksandrau and his fiance face treason charges, another activist shares her own experiences of Belarus’ court system