Laura Silvia Battaglia recalls the last play she saw in Gaza and talks to its director today about how theatre is still providing a voice for the displaced, even in refugee camps
The unstilled voice of Gazan theatre
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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
The Bangladesh government has been killing student protesters but reporting it has become nearly impossible
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her ministers are trying to cover up what the government has done and is blaming external “terrorists” and opposition parties
Kenya: Young reporters and NGOs targeted as part of clampdown on Gen Z protests
Our reporter talks to a young journalist and the director of a young people’s organisation who have been threatened and censored for their work
Iran: Complaint to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in response to the ongoing judicial persecution of Toomaj Salehi
Index on Censorship, Human Rights Foundation and Doughty Street Chambers make submission on behalf of rapper’s family
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
How Russia is shaping the Syrian media narrative
The way that announcements about illnesses and deaths are reported shows signs of external influence
It’s radio silence around Venezuela’s election
Venezuela is heading to the polls on 28 July but both national and international media are being stifled when it comes to reporting on the election