It’s the students who should decide whose picture is on the wall of their common room, not the education secretary
Wake up Williamson: the Magdalen College controversy
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Statement on the Maya Forstater judgement
The case before the Employment Appeal Tribunal was about protecting in law the right to hold certain beliefs
Index and 21 other organisations condemn lawsuits brought by ENRC against public watchdogs
Lawsuits represent an egregious attempt to curtail freedom of expression and jeopardise anti-corruption efforts
Why journalists and dissidents turn to Telegram
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As you scroll through your Telegram feed, one image jumps out. It shows crowds of young Hong Kongers, all dressed in black, at a protest, holding their smartphones aloft like virtual cigarette lighters from a...
Let’s cut Lukashenko’s financial support
The president of Belarus is acting with impunity against his critics. It is time to go further than words of condemnation
Hijack, arrest, torture: Belarusian journalists under attack
The grounding of a Ryanair flight on a fake bomb threat is just the latest escalation of an independent media clampdown in Belarus
Roman Protasevich is a dissident and an activist, but above all a journalist
Belarus regime staged hijack to silence their most prominent critic
Urgent letter to Croatian Minister of Justice: Do not extradite whistleblower Jonathan Taylor
Whistleblower’s evidence contributed to an oil company paying fines amounting to over $US800 million in a corruption and bribery scandal
Yulia Tsvetkova’s hunger strike: “I have reached a dead end”
Index award-winner calls on her supporters not to waste any more time “on the farce called Russian justice”
The Queen’s Speech is a systematic assault on free expression
On the face of it, the Government’s legislative agenda looks reasonable but the devil is in the detail