On 14 June 2025, the Saudi Interior Ministry announced on X that it had carried out the death penalty on Saudi journalist ...

It is ironic that the US president, a supposed champion of free speech, has threatened Bruce Springsteen for expressing his ...

Denied the right to do my job, I’ve gone from reporting on the frontlines of the Israeli military campaign to fighting for my ...

Laws on foreign funding and broadcast content empower authorities to censor, prosecute and close media that provide vital ...

In a secondary academy in England, a librarian is putting books into a box. Just moments before, they were proudly on the shelves, rainbow flags waving across their covers and words such as “queer” ...

Members of Civil Society hold a protest demonstration at Peshawar press club in June 2025 demanding justice for Sana Yousaf, ...

Free speech in Libya has been transformed in a relatively short period. The initial boom of diverse independent media outlets has been hailed by many observers as one of the major achievements of the ...

In a recent article in Byline Times, Neal Lawson the executive director of Compass, a “good society” cross-party campaign group, asked why the UK government couldn’t just ban lying in politics. This ...

The Spring 2024 issue of Index looks at how authoritarian states are reaching across borders in their attempts to silence dissidents. Nowhere is safe for those speaking out against oppressive regimes ...

At its core, freedom of religion or belief requires freedom of expression. Both fundamental rights are protected in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, yet nearly half of all countries penalize ...

An unexpected view of China and the Wall Street Journal’s sacking of a reporter named chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association hit the headlines this week ...