Ai Weiwei was born in Beijing in 1957 – the same year that Mao launched the so-called Anti-Rightist Campaign. 300,000 individuals, including many artists and intellectuals, were exiled to China’s ...

During a one-day mission to Budapest on 22 October 2025, partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Platform for the safety of journalists met with journalists, media representatives, legal ...

A former member of the protest band explains how she left a career in St Petersburg's police force to become a political ...

This piece first appeared in the Winter 2025 issue of Index on Censorship, Gen Z is revolting: Why the world’s youth will not be silenced, published on 18 December 2025. La Mutinerie sits in the heart ...

Journalists are powerful watchdogs and protecting them should be a baseline requirement for a free society. But given how woeful the state of media freedom is right now – the number of murdered ...

This article first appeared in Volume 54, Issue 2 of our print edition of Index on Censorship, titled Land of the Free?: Trump’s war on speech at home and abroad, published on 21 July 2025. Read more ...

Our former editor argues that we need to have the courage and vision to support the Jewish community without destroying a ...

The event was due to be held in a venue partly funded by China and follows a Zambian environmental disaster involving a Chinese state firm ...

Turkey is slipping fast down the Reporters without Borders (RSF) ‘s World Press Freedom Index. The country is now ranked 159th out of 180. As I write these lines from exile there are 31 Turkish ...

Israel's official position is that the Israel Defense Force (IDF) never targets journalists for being journalists - the facts ...

When your job is to campaign against censorship, sometimes censorship comes for you. And that’s exactly what has just ...