Residents of Hong Kong are going to be given “fortune bags” this month. Millions of people in the city of 7.4 million will receive bags containing a mug, a pen and a fan. The souvenirs will be customised to celebrate 25 years since the handover of...
Home Secretary Priti Patel’s decision will have a chilling effect on journalism and put the Wikileaks founder at risk
Journalist Dom Phillips and Bruno Araújo Pereira went missing in the Amazon in Brazil. Index spoke to one of the people who last saw them
Cineworld has cancelled all UK screenings of a film in what sets a worrying precedent
Belarusian journalist and poet Sabina Brilo (below) on her friend Andrei Aliaksandrau who goes on trial today
Human rights groups who have been campaigning for several years for the release of the blogger and human rights defender can finally celebrate
Our former colleague writes to his supporters as his trial on charges of treason opens in Belarus
Zhou Fengsuo was a student at the time of the Tiananmen Square protests. He tells Jemimah Steinfeld how peaceful times turned to horror
The Iranian government is holding propaganda events while attempting to silence protests against corruption following a building collapse in Abadan
A reconciliation dialogue promised after the death last April of the central African country’s president is in turmoil