Alistair Hampshaw is a member of Gen Z with an interest in journalism who will soon be studying history and politics ...

“Since COVID, you can probably say more in person than you can online. It used to be very much like you could say whatever you wanted online and no one was going to track it to you. If you say one ...

Another protester, Mojtaba Shahpari, who was taken to hospital with a leg wound, to later be found shot in the head, had ...

Bobi Wine is alive. Uganda’s leading opposition figure is currently in hiding following last week’s elections, releasing ...

As Yoweri Museveni celebrates 40 years in power, Danson Kahyana reflects on how the dictator has strengthened his hold on ...

Truth seems overwhelmingly difficult”: the words of lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari who was taken from a car by police on her way ...

Lukashenka's political prisoners are seen as bargaining chips rather than people. Andrei, like hundreds of others, should not ...

If the signs weren’t there already, the US President’s speech at Davos made clear his intention to tighten his stranglehold on the free press ...

Today, Russian rap music made by women coalesces around Zhenski rap, a sub-genre that emerged in the mid-1990s. Starting with Lika Rap, the 1994 album by Lika Pavlova (aka Lika Star), women have ...

Index on Censorship is the UK partner for the USA Coalition, which runs ‘Banned Books Week’. Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books ...

The Spring 2024 issue of Index looks at how authoritarian states are reaching across borders in their attempts to silence dissidents. Nowhere is safe for those speaking out against oppressive regimes ...