A special investigation reveals more than half of UK school librarians surveyed by Index have been asked to remove books from their shelves
Banned: school librarians shushed over LGBT+ books
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Contents – The final cut: How cinema is being used to change the global narrative
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The dichotomy of Turkey
Erdoğan is keen to trumpet Turkey’s role in the recent prisoner swap but the president remains the most relentless implementer of censorship in Turkish history
The importance of local journalism to understanding the UK riots
Mill Media with its network of local journalists was able to spot the rising far-right threat to asylum hotels well before their national counterparts in London
Belarus: If you want freedom, take it
Today marks the fourth anniversary of the disputed election in Belarus that saw Alyaksandr Lukashenka take a sixth term as president
Russia, disinformation and two Olympic boxers
Female boxer Imane Khelif is guaranteed a silver or gold today at the Paris Olympics but her achievement has been marred by false claims that she is transgender
How many letters can they shred?
The Belarusian president-elect in exile, denied her victory by Lukashenka, writes exclusively for Index on the country’s political prisoners
Undercover freedom fund
We talk to the founders of Bysol, a non-profit humanitarian foundation using cryptocurrency to help dissidents in Belarus and aid the Ukrainian war effort
UK journalists fall victim to new police tactics
Journalists covering protests in the UK are still being arrested, even before they have arrived at the demonstrations
Vladimir Kara-Murza: The dissident spirit of Russia
The historian and writer represents views which run counter to the authoritarian tendency that has dominated the country for so much of its recent history