More than 30 organisations call on the Seanad to take action over anti-SLAPP measures, calling it a missed opportunity to ...

Why? Because stories are powerful. Because reading can challenge the status quo.

As veteran Turkish journalist Can Dündar told me this week, “Like many autocrats, Erdoğan is intolerant of humour.” He fears the chilling effect this latest crackdown could have. “This may silence ...

The Supreme Council of National Security announced that any action deemed supportive of Israel would be met with the most ...

Index and other organisations sound alarm over threat of extradition facing the Kurdish writer, journalist and poet ...

The city’s biggest ever Pride event showed once again that expressing yourself peacefully should be a right, not a privilege ...

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 ...

Freedom of expression is essential to the arts. But the laws and practices that protect free expression are often poorly understood.

Board of Trustees Sir Trevor Phillips (Chair) Kate Maltby (Deputy Chair), Andrew Franklin, James Goode, Helen Mountfield KC, Ian Rosenblatt OBE, Mark Stephens and Nick Timothy. Company Directors Sir ...

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 ...

The Spring 2024 issue of Index looks at how authoritarian states are bypassing borders in order to suppress dissidents.

A special investigation reveals more than half of UK school librarians surveyed by Index have been asked to remove books from their shelves ...