Censorship of communications means that those detained by Lukashenka’s regime are not free to express themselves openly
Why are the letters of political prisoners in Belarus so cheerful?
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Index supports The Shift News in freedom of information battle with the government of Malta
The media outlet had requested details of dealings between government entities and Media Today co-owner Saviour Balzan
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...
Index on Censorship files media freedom alert after Sinn Féin MLA legal action
Index on Censorship is concerned at the lawsuits that have been filed against journalist Malachi O’Doherty and columnist Ruth Dudley Edwards. Both are being sued individually by Sinn Féin politician Gerry Kelly MLA, who is claiming aggravated...
Where poetry is labelled extremism
The removal of the Rajapaksa clan will not solve Sri Lanka’s deeply ingrained problem with corruption and the repression of dissent
Fighting tyranny with poetry: Myanmar’s silenced voices
The last time a political activist was hanged in Myanmar was in 1976, when the ethnic Chin student Salai Tin Maung Oo, 25, was executed for sedition. I was hoping against hope that the junta was bluffing when it announced in early June 2022 that it...
Remembering the political prisoners executed in Myanmar
Kyaw Min Yu and Phyo Zayar Thaw were prominent voices in the democracy movement in Myanmar. But on 25 July 2022, state news outlet Global New Light of Myanmar released a statement claiming that they had been executed on the grounds of “terror...
Co-chairs of UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition welcome Government’s action on SLAPPs
Dominic Raab to announce legislative measures that includes recommendations from coalition co-led by Index on Censorship
A memorial for the man who told the world about the Babyn Yar massacre
Anatoly Kuznetsov is the author of Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel. His memoir is a masterpiece of Ukrainian literature and a testament to the 30,000 Jews massacred at Babyn Yar (the Ukrainian spelling), Kyiv in September 1941. Today it...
Belarus: Andrei Aliaksandrau writes of his “travels”
Our former colleague writes from prison as his trial is suspended for two months