In the UK, the political right also claims regularly that free speech is under threat from an overbearing state, policing ...

Anshuman Mondal is a professor of modern literature at the University of East Anglia. His new book Racism and ‘Free Speech’ ...

They invited the Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah to appear at the festival. Abdel-Fattah is a novelist, ...

The musician and activist writes about the freedom fighters, writers, poets and musicians who have inspired her ...

The musician and activist writes about the freedom fighters, writers, poets and musicians who have inspired her ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Winter 2023 issue of Index looks at how comedy is being censored around the world. Comedy has always been a powerful tool of dissent, but many comedians are being threatened, imprisoned or even ...