Sadigov had been living in the Georgian capital Tbilisi since 2023, after he left having been persected in his home country for his journalism. The Georgian authorities had allowed him to stay but had ...

As Hungary goes to the polls, Index looks at the Viktor Orbán-funded institute which is bringing together far-right leaders ...

The Spring 2026 issue of Index on Censorship looks at Hungary's illiberal democracy and its influence across Europe ...

Media freedom in Serbia remains trapped in a downward spiral amidst record levels of physical violence against journalists, ...

Read below former Index CEO and now the chief executive of the Committee to Project Journalists Jodie Ginsberg's powerful James Cameron Memorial Lecture delivered before the targeted killing this week ...

Read below former Index CEO and now the chief executive of the Committee to Project Journalists Jodie Ginsberg's powerful James Cameron Memorial Lecture delivered before the targeted killing this week ...

At its core, freedom of religion or belief requires freedom of expression. Both fundamental rights are protected in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, yet nearly half of all countries penalize ...

Since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak two years ago, artists have been active in breaking Egypt’s age-old taboos around sexual violence, especially since sexual harassment has been on the rise.

When a school librarian from Greater Manchester came to Index with a shocking story about nearly 200 books being hauled from her shelves and losing her career to a “safeguarding” complaint, we ...

Music has been described as a “cultural universal” – a practice found in all known human cultures and societies. While anthropologists still scratch their heads over exactly where the concept ...

The Winter 2023 issue of Index looks at how comedy is being censored around the world. Comedy has always been a powerful tool of dissent, but many comedians are being threatened, imprisoned or even ...