The Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender Diala Ayesh has been released, after spending almost a year in Israel’s ...

Our Freedom of Expression Awards recognise those on the frontline of free expression and whose work has contributed ...

With a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas now imminent, Index reflects on the damage done to Palestine’s cultural ...

Undemocratic states that seek to exploit soft power to hide their human rights abuses should be condemned, not celebrated ...

They endure many of the hidden, historical tribulations of Vietnam – from the Maoist land reform in the 1950s, which seized ...

The country’s rich literary history has been plagued by censorship and book bans ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement this week of changes to Meta’s content moderation policies appeared to primarily be about building trust. Trust among users. Trust among investors. And trust among the ...

Following the Charlie Hebdo attacks in 2015, the best-selling Turkish novelist wrote for Index about how writers are staying silent on their self-censorship ...

For more than five decades, Syria has lived under a repressive regime that has made freedom of expression a distant dream. Under Bashar al-Assad, expression was curtailed by repressive laws and strict ...

Maha Ghazal is a Syrian journalist, feminist and civil rights activist. She was previously the managing editor of the website Madar Al-Youm. She is also a member of the Executive Office of the Union ...

This week, 7 January 2025 marks exactly ten years since the Charlie Hebdo attacks, when Islamist gunmen stormed the satirical magazine’s Paris editorial office and killed 11 people over cartoons of ...