In wartime, sharing photos of bombed locations or even accessing the internet could get you prosecuted for collaborating with the enemy ...

To be an Iranian dissident must be profoundly confusing. The autocratic ayatollah has been killed but there is no succession plan ...

All over the world, International Women Day is celebrated to recognise the achievements and rights of women. But unfortunately, in Pakistan, that recognition means nothing. The reason: on that same ...

She longed for a normal life and to return to Moscow after years spent reporting on the war in Chechnya. She did return to ...

Opinion polls currently show that the new opposition party Tisza, headed by Péter Magyar, has a steady lead ahead of general ...

In 2025, press freedom in Europe was under sustained pressure, driven by legal threats, attempts at media capture and transnational repression. This pressure was compounded by an increasingly hostile ...

Farah, 25, based in Parwan province, supported her family as a civil servant and for UN agencies before the Taliban took over. Then, like so many other women, she lost her job. She did not take that ...

We are looking for feature ideas about censorship from all over the world. We particularly like person-centred articles which give us a new insight about how freedom of expression is under threat. We ...

The message of one of our founders, Stephen Spender, was that Index wouldn’t be doing a good job if it didn’t keep an eye on attacks to free expression that happen on home soil. With this in mind and ...

Zoomers – young people born between 1997 and 2012 – took to the streets last summer. They didn’t have a common ideology but they were angry about the state of world and felt hopeless for the future.