News and Features

Index launches weekly What the Fuck!? podcast with Alison Jackson

by Mark Stimpson | 11 Nov 2020

British artist and photographer talks about artistic freedom and driving a fake and half-naked Donald Trump around Manhattan

by Benjamin Lynch | 9 Nov 2020

Young Nigerians are coming together to make sure their voices heard

by Orna Herr | 3 Nov 2020

As various countries around the world seek to make abortion illegal or hard to get, Orna Herr highlights the free expression implications

Volha Siakhovich writes from Belarus about the current conditions of journalists working in the country

by Mark Stimpson | 30 Oct 2020

MP Tulip Siddiq expresses her support by reciting a poem written for Index by Zaghari-Ratcliffe from her cell

Openly speaking about who you might vote for in the USA can still get people in trouble, says acclaimed author Darryl Pinckney

by Benjamin Lynch | 27 Oct 2020

The proposals aim to limit the length of stay for foreign journalists through changes to their visa

by Mark Stimpson | 23 Oct 2020

The polls say that the country’s incumbent president will get a second term but will the result be rigged?

by Benjamin Lynch | 22 Oct 2020

Supreme Court nominee’s responses to questioning on key issues during confirmation hearings have not allayed fears

by Olivier Rolin | 19 Oct 2020

A Russian historian’s research into killings during Stalin’s regime has resulted in an extreme campaign against him