A landmark Supreme Court ruling means foreign states can no longer rely on immunity to target dissidents on British soil ...

A major new report that looks at how dissidents are stopped from entering or leaving their countries ...

However, our report titled The weaponisation of travel bans to silence speech and dissent published today by Index on Censorship reveals a quieter, less visible tool of state repression that is ...

HIV charity says it is being targeted by a loosely organised campaign of spurious complaints motivated by stigma ...

This article first appeared in Volume 54, Issue 2 of our print edition of Index on Censorship, titled Land of the Free?: Trump’s war on speech at home and abroad, published on 21 July 2025. Read more ...

During a one-day mission to Budapest on 22 October 2025, partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Platform for the safety of journalists met with journalists, media representatives, legal ...

More often than not, we talk about “the Taliban” rather than individual leaders in Afghanistan. But this forgets the real human beings driving the decisions. So today we’re using the name of the ...

Youmna El Sayed an internationally recognised journalist and public speaker, formerly serving as the Al Jazeera English Correspondent in the Gaza Strip. With over ten years of experience reporting ...

Marc Nash argues that the t-shirt Zack Polanski shared was not incitement to violence ...

Marc Nash has published five novels, including Three Dreams in the Key of G, nominated for The Guardian’s Not The Booker ...

The contempt case against Rajiv Menon KC will have a chilling effect on defence barristers and on the right to protest ...

Towards the end of last year, when I was editing our magazine about Gen Z revolts around the world, I asked around about India. Was a Gen Z revolt likely there? After all, young people had toppled ...