More than 30 organisations call on the Seanad to take action over anti-SLAPP measures, calling it a missed opportunity to ...

Why? Because stories are powerful. Because reading can challenge the status quo.

As veteran Turkish journalist Can Dündar told me this week, “Like many autocrats, Erdoğan is intolerant of humour.” He fears the chilling effect this latest crackdown could have. “This may silence ...

The Supreme Council of National Security announced that any action deemed supportive of Israel would be met with the most ...

Index and other organisations sound alarm over threat of extradition facing the Kurdish writer, journalist and poet ...

The city’s biggest ever Pride event showed once again that expressing yourself peacefully should be a right, not a privilege ...

The message of one of our founders, Stephen Spender, was that Index wouldn’t be doing a good job if it didn’t keep an eye on attacks to free expression that happen on home soil. With this in mind and ...

The undersigned organisations condemn the harassment of artist, political cartoonist and activist Badiucao, which has taken place via email, in the media, and on social media in the last week. The ...

With China becoming an increasingly dominant world power, there is growing evidence that an emboldened Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is employing a range of tools aimed at pressuring or manipulating ...

The Summer 2024 issue of Index looks at how cinema is used as a tool to help shape the global political narrative by investigating who controls what we see on the screen and why they want us to see it ...

The Spring 2023 issue of Index looks at the state of free expression in Narendra Modi’s India. It paints a bleak picture: The press, once vibrant, is being strangled; the judiciary is no longer ...

When news broke on Monday of 17-year-old Sana Yousaf’s murder, it was first described as a potential “honour-based killing”. Yousaf, a social media influencer from Pakistan, had become a visible ...