As the US president continues his attacks on universities and the media, it’s worth noting that a democratic leader has done this before ...

Chloé Troadec is a freelance journalist and an interpreter focused on the Middle East. She is the co-founder of the Rojava ...

Media workers in the Kurdish-led autonomous region in northern Syria have long suffered attacks by Turkish forces and ...

In recent months, several young men and women in Uganda have been arrested and charged for views they expressed on TikTok. In the East African country, the freedom of expression landscape has ...

Hong Kong, Georgia, India, the USA – places once regarded as relatively liberal – are now part of a troubling trend where ...

Index on Censorship and other organisations highlight the continued use of sedition to target independent reporting and public interest speech ...

Bashar al-Assad’s government was toppled by Syrian rebels this week, bringing the dictator’s 24-year-reign to a close ...

Hamdan Ballal, the Oscar-winning Palestinian co-director of No Other Land, is released from a police station in the West Bank ...

As physics laboratory Cern ends co-operation with Russia and Belarus over the Ukraine war, Index talks to exiled scientists ...

As huge protests continue to take place, harassment and violence are escalating Twenty five years ago this autumn the Berlin Wall was pulled down and a wave of euphoria swept not just across that city ...