As governments look into contact tracing apps to identify and isolate people with coronavirus, Rachael Jolley discusses whether signing up to apps – and other actions we take online and off – make us complicit in giving away our freedoms
The winners of the Freedom of Expression Awards 2020 include a Turkish lawyer, Bahraini activist and Russian artist, plus two organisations fighting for freedoms in Palestine and Poland
Will international companies take on China’s attitude to censorship after the pandemic? Charlotte Middlehurst reports
World leaders are refusing to answer perfectly valid journalist questions on coronavirus while we answer questions on our media violations tracking map on the BBC
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán has pushed through emergency laws that have no time limit and enormous potential to limit media freedom
A growing number of world leaders are avoiding questions asked by the media about coronavirus, as we report on our global map monitoring media violations
A Chinese writer explains what it’s like living in a country where information is tightly controlled, and misinformation rife, during the coronavirus crisis
Turkish author and journalist Kaya Genç answers questions from the Index youth advisory board about watching his colleagues being silenced and how writers can challenge authority
Index on Censorship and 106 other organisations are urging governments to respect human rights as they attempt to tackle the coronavirus pandemic through digital surveillance technologies
As coronavirus spreads throughout Europe we are seeing several common tactics to undermine our free expression