The “bravery and brilliance” of free expression champions from China, Cuba, Russia and Ukraine celebrated at annual awards
Winners of Index’s 2022 Freedom of Expression Awards announced
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Campaigning 2022
OVD-Info is the winner in the 2022 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards Campaigning category
The value of public service journalism
As the BBC celebrates its centenary, our CEO Ruth Smeeth considers why it is so important
The woman exposing the propaganda puppet masters
Emma Briant researches the players behind some of the largest misinformation and disinformation campaigns today
“Imagine the conversation between Bolsonaro and Erdogan”
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?
An ode to two defining figures from 1989
The year 1989 saw events that shaped the world we currently live. We look at two essential figures who challenged the status quo at the time
Mikhail Gorbachev: the Soviet leader who learned to love freedom of expression
The former president, who has died at the age of 91, wrote presciently in the pages of Index on Censorship
Theatre censorship: An index reading list
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...
An unwelcome return to the 1970s
Protests for women’s rights, widespread strikes, rampant inflation. Have we turned the clock back fifty years?
Cancelling Russian culture is today’s moral imperative
Putin has used Russian culture to further his aims. Promoting it today risks furthering his agenda, writes Marina Pesenti