As 60 organisations come together to ask the EU to develop legislation to stop vexatious lawsuits, we publish journalists’ accounts of being slapped with legal action

As 60 organisations come together to ask the EU to develop legislation to stop vexatious lawsuits, we publish journalists’ accounts of being slapped with legal action
Six journalists speak about the legal efforts to silence them over their reporting
The former editor of Index discusses working with Noam Chomsky, 9/11 and interviewing Orban before his far right swing
The launch is part of the #StopSlapps campaign against the use of lawsuits to silence the media
The founder of punk anarchists Crass speaks about Donald Trump, the repressed British and his new album Arthur Rimbaud in Verdun
Karim Ennarah, EIPR’s criminal justice unit director, is facing fabricated charges of joining a terrorist group and spreading fake news
The Tanzanian opposition leader, who has been forced to flee the country, talks to Index about the recent election
Maggi Hambling’s A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft has been roundly criticised, with some trying to censor its nakedness
The actor who played Nymphadora Tonks talks about why she gets angry about female genital cutting and what she is doing about it
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