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

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As Mohammed Zubair’s case shows, the “world’s largest democracy” is still holding on to outdated and repressive laws that class journalism as a threat ...

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 ...

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

Maha Ghazal is a Syrian journalist, feminist and civil rights activist. She was previously the managing editor of the website ...