The name of the woman murdered by Iran’s “morality police” was Jina Amini but Kurds in the country cannot use their real names, says British-Kurdish writer and organiser Elif Sarican
A major new global ranking index tracking the state of free expression is published today
Country is latest to criminalise vaguely defined fake news to target human rights activists and journalists
The Winter issue of Index magazine highlights the battles fought by theatre of resistance across the world and how they've been enduring different forms of censorship. Writer Jonathan Maitland dives deeply into the history of theatre censorship in...
The individual who has been voted the most oppressive in 2021 by Index readers has been named
The Autumn issue of Index magazine focuses on the struggle for environmental justice by indigenous campaigners. Anticipating the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), in Glasgow, in November, we've chosen to give voice to people who are...
Journalists tell Index how a new type of visa is vital to protect lives and stop media censorship. Rachael Jolley reports
Nerma Jelacic argues revisionists are manipulating free speech defenders
Why we need to heed the words from the maiden speech of the murdered MP more than ever
His absolute independence is what saved him in all the years that he stayed in Raqqa, even during the years that Isis was in charge