Sevan Nişanyan believes he has been added to the country’s “list of undesirable foreigners” as a result of his controversial research
Turkish-Armenian academic faces deportation from Greece over controversial views
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Index reiterates its support for Carole Cadwalladr as she faces SLAPP trial
We join seventeen other organisations in supporting the award-winning journalist who is facing a week-long defamation trial in London this week
As Russian troops move to border Ukraine history attacked
The closure of Memorial is an attack on Ukraine history, coming at a time of heightened concern about the country’s future
Belarus: Join the campaign to free our friends Andrei Aliaksandrau and Irina Zlobina
It is now a year since our former colleague and his partner were detained following Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s disputed election victory
Hope in the darkness
Nathan Law, one of the leaders of Hong Kong’s protest movement, is convinced that the repression will not last forever. Here we publish an extract from his new book
“I wrote a play then lost my home, my husband and my trust”
Turkish playwright Meltem Arikan’s Mi Minör was blamed for the seminal Gezi Park protests that convulsed Istanbul
Censorship is still in the script
In June 2015, a national newspaper in Britain started a campaign to have a play banned. This surprised me for two reasons. One: clearly no one had...
Testament to the power of theatre as rebellion
The Belarus Free Theatre, whose 16 members have now gone into exile to escape the Lukashenka regime, are preparing to perform at the Barbican in London in 2022
Call for investigation into historical police handling of Norwegian publisher’s attempted murder
Case is believed to be linked to the publication of The Satanic Verses in the country
Contents – Playing with fire: how theatre is resisting the oppressor
The Winter issue of Index magazine highlights the battles fought by theatre of resistance across the world and how they've been enduring different...