First he fled Xinjiang. Then Kazakhstan. And then Turkey. On 20 January 2021 Serikzhan Bilash, a prominent human rights defender and activist,...
Kazakh family share horror of speaking up about Xinjiang
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Kazakhstan’s independent media and civil society shiver after protests
Demonstrations over fuel prices have lead to a crackdown and the arrival of Russian troops
Turkish-Armenian academic faces deportation from Greece over controversial views
Sevan Nişanyan believes he has been added to the country’s “list of undesirable foreigners” as a result of his controversial research
Index reiterates its support for Carole Cadwalladr as she faces SLAPP trial
We join seventeen other organisations in supporting the award-winning journalist who is facing a week-long defamation trial in London this week
As Russian troops move to border Ukraine history attacked
The closure of Memorial is an attack on Ukraine history, coming at a time of heightened concern about the country’s future
Belarus: Join the campaign to free our friends Andrei Aliaksandrau and Irina Zlobina
It is now a year since our former colleague and his partner were detained following Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s disputed election victory
Just a week into 2022 and already violations are stacking up
From Kazakhstan to Hong Kong the news is full of horrific stories from around the world. We must use our voices to shout about them
Hope in the darkness
Nathan Law, one of the leaders of Hong Kong’s protest movement, is convinced that the repression will not last forever. Here we publish an extract from his new book
Index Chair Trevor Phillips honoured with knighthood
Phillips is honoured with knighthood for his work on understanding Covid-19
“I wrote a play then lost my home, my husband and my trust”
Turkish playwright Meltem Arikan’s Mi Minör was blamed for the seminal Gezi Park protests that convulsed Istanbul