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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
Hong Kong arrests series of journalists in large-scale assault on media freedom
The arrests of prominent Hong Kong journalists and activists are an assault on media freedom and we must shout loudly against them
Censorship is still in the script
In June 2015, a national newspaper in Britain started a campaign to have a play banned. This surprised me for two reasons. One: clearly no one had told the Daily Mirror about the Theatre Act 1968, which abolished the state’s censorship of the stage...
Testament to the power of theatre as rebellion
The Belarus Free Theatre, whose 16 members have now gone into exile to escape the Lukashenka regime, are preparing to perform at the Barbican in London in 2022
Call for investigation into historical police handling of Norwegian publisher’s attempted murder
Case is believed to be linked to the publication of The Satanic Verses in the country
Women journalists caught in middle of Afghanistan’s nightmare
Many journalists – women in particular – have fled the Taliban or are in hiding from the brutal regime