News and Features

What the Fuck!? podcast new episode: Punk poet Penny Rimbaud

by Mark Stimpson | 26 Nov 2020

The founder of punk anarchists Crass speaks about Donald Trump, the repressed British and his new album Arthur Rimbaud in Verdun

“His only crime is to believe that Egyptians deserve the most basic of human rights”

by Mark Stimpson | 25 Nov 2020

Karim Ennarah, EIPR’s criminal justice unit director, is facing fabricated charges of joining a terrorist group and spreading fake news

“Tanzanians want democracy, respect for their basic human rights and dignity” – Tundu Lissu

by Neema Komba | 25 Nov 2020

The Tanzanian opposition leader, who has been forced to flee the country, talks to Index about the recent election

Why a naked feminist statue should remain uncensored

by Orna Herr | 23 Nov 2020

Maggi Hambling’s A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft has been roundly criticised, with some trying to censor its nakedness

What the Fuck!? podcast new episode: Harry Potter actor Natalia Tena

by Mark Stimpson | 19 Nov 2020

The actor who played Nymphadora Tonks talks about why she gets angry about female genital cutting and what she is doing about it

The bloody consequences of Turkey’s clashes with the Kurds

by Baris Altintas | 18 Nov 2020

In September, two men were abducted, beaten and thrown from a helicopter. One died, the other hospitalised. Journalists reporting the story have been targeted too

“Anxiety has always been part of Hong Kong’s handover story”

by Michael C. Davis | 11 Nov 2020

A new book on Hong Kong published this November called Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law by Michael C. Davis provides much needed insight and background into the current crackdown on rights in the city. We publish extracts from the book