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
Russia, disinformation and two Olympic boxers
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
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
Russia: Index welcomes release of Vladimir Kara-Murza and Evan Gershkovich from jail
The vocal critic of Vladimir Putin and the Wall Street Journal reporter are among a number of people released as part of a prisoner exchange
First they came for the Greens
A look at the violent attacks being carried out against Germany’s Green Party as politicians standing on an eco-ticket in the European Parliament elections suffered big losses
Ukraine | A chronicle of censorship
A TV giant in the USA is preventing a documentary film about the Babyn Yar massacre being shown
The latest rubbish joke from China
An unexpected view of China and the Wall Street Journal’s sacking of a reporter named chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association hit the headlines this week
Encouraging signs on freedom of expression after Starmer’s first week
Appointments to and actions from the new Cabinet suggest a shift in approach