Journalists in Turkey are once again being targeted in one of the country’s largest Kurdish-majority cities, explains a director from the Media and Law Studies Association
The summer issue of Index magazine concentrated its efforts on the developing situation between Russia and Ukraine and consequential effects around Europe and the world. We decided to give voice to journalists, artists and dissidents who chose to...
Meet the three shortlisted artists for this year’s award
The spring issue of Index magazine is special. We are celebrating 50 years of history and to such a milestone we've decided to look back at the thorny path that brought us here. Editors from our five decades of life have accepted our invitation to...
First he fled Xinjiang. Then Kazakhstan. And then Turkey. On 20 January 2021 Serikzhan Bilash, a prominent human rights defender and activist, travelled alone to the United States to seek asylum. He left behind his wife, Laila Adilzahn, and three...
Sevan Nişanyan believes he has been added to the country’s “list of undesirable foreigners” as a result of his controversial research
Turkish playwright Meltem Arikan’s Mi Minör was blamed for the seminal Gezi Park protests that convulsed Istanbul
The Winter issue of Index magazine highlights the battles fought by theatre of resistance across the world and how they've been enduring different forms of censorship. Writer Jonathan Maitland dives deeply into the history of theatre censorship in...
Two Turkish writers discuss Index on Censorship’s new magazine, which looks at how playwrights and directors are resisting oppression
Dutch journalist forced back to the Netherlands after asking tough questions of the prime minister of Greece over migrant push-back