The Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender Diala Ayesh has been released, after spending almost a year in Israel’s ...
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Undemocratic states that seek to exploit soft power to hide their human rights abuses should be condemned, not celebrated ...
The country’s rich literary history has been plagued by censorship and book bans ...
With a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas now imminent, Index reflects on the damage done to Palestine’s cultural ...
They endure many of the hidden, historical tribulations of Vietnam – from the Maoist land reform in the 1950s, which seized ...
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 ...
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 ...