UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is reportedly under pressure to repeal hate speech laws in order to secure a favourable ...

It is deeply troubling that the USA’s new health secretary believes in conspiracy theories and is hostile towards modern ...

Index interviews “the bookseller of Jerusalem” about the recent raids on his bookshop and the ongoing crackdown on literary ...

Mark Honigsbaum is a medical historian and journalist specialising in the history and science of infectious disease, and a ...

The 2025 edition of the annual European SLAPP Contest put on by the Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe (CASE) took place in Brussels last week in front of an enthusiastic crowd, brought together by a ...

Index investigates the culture of secrecy shrouding maternity services and women’s healthcare in England ...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”This is the third in a series of articles exploring media freedom drawn from the archives of Index on Censorship magazine. Writing in 1997, the late ...

More than 40 organisations from around the world stand in solidarity with the award-winning cartoonist ...

More than 40 organisations from around the world stand in solidarity with the award-winning cartoonist ...

President of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) and director of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), Nabeel Rajab, is due to face trial on Sunday 2 November. Rajab was charged after he ...

Social media spaces are shrinking as freedom of speech is further eroded in Uganda, leaving no safe haven for critical thoughts ...

More than 40 organisations from around the world stand in solidarity with the award-winning cartoonist ...