Fatemeh Jamalpour is an Iranian journalist in exile and co-author of For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women ...

As the Iranian government cracks down violently on protest, we go on the trail of a spray-painting grandmother who secretly keeps the words of the protests alive ...

A Tanzanian poet reflects on her country's president winning our annual poll of despots against fierce competition ...

New employment rules spell victory for Zelda Perkins, former assistant to the disgraced film producer and who was awarded a ...

It should now be clear to everyone that the year 2026 will be marked by the march of the far right further into the ...

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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 ...

Index on Censorship is the UK partner for the USA Coalition, which runs ‘Banned Books Week’. Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books ...

Following a highly disputed election, Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka claimed victory in August 2020. Protests erupted and a vicious crackdown ensued. Letters from Lukashenka’s Prisoners ...

Since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak two years ago, artists have been active in breaking Egypt’s age-old taboos around sexual violence, especially since sexual harassment has been on the rise. In ...

The focus of this project is to provide an insight into the extent to which public watchdogs, including journalists, academics, environmental defenders, community groups and sexual abuse survivors, ...

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