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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...