Angana Chakrabarti reports from the North Eastern region, where government advertising is used as a tool to control the media ...

Rap is not a crime. Calling for human rights and democracy is not a crime. Standing up in solidarity with the courageous ...

Angana Chakrabarti reports from the North Eastern region, where government advertising is used as a tool to control the media ...

Today is a day of despair – but it is also a day for those of us who genuinely care about free expression to come together to protect and promote it ...

Cinema screenings are fairly cancelled in the interests of public safety - but does this further relinquish the voices of ...

At a time of growing conflict, threats and censorship, the shortlist for this year’s Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression award highlights the courageous work carried out by individuals and ...

This week marks two years since Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was arrested, and although his death sentence has been reversed, he still languishes in jail. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe introduces one of h ...

Beyond Baku, we were disturbed to read this week of a Papuan news outlet, Jujur Bicara (also known as Jubi), which was attacked with a bomb. The bomb damaged two cars before staff at the paper were ...

Ever since Galileo Galilei faced the Roman inquisition in the 17th century for proving that the Earth went round the sun, scientists have risked being ruthlessly silenced. People are threatened by new ...

The Ukrainian government has confirmed the death of journalist Victoria Roshchyna, who died during a prisoner swap in September. Free expression organisations, including Index on Censorship, are ...

The shutdown of the West Bank news centre has been labelled a security step by Israeli officials, but a worrying form of press suppression by media workers, unions and academics.