Sadigov had been living in the Georgian capital Tbilisi since 2023, after he left having been persected in his home country ...

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 ...

Twenty-seven years after the assassination of Serbian newspaper publisher and editor Slavko Ćuruvija in Belgrade, the undersigned media freedom organisations mark the upcoming anniversary of the ...

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 ...

In November 2025, a school library in Greater Manchester underwent a purge. Inspired by the headteacher’s dislike of one particular title, books were pulled off the shelves, in a case unlike any ...

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 ...

What actually happened when the Minab school in Iran was bombed matters. For a few moments last week I thought the Italian novelist Elena Ferrante had died. She hadn’t. It was fake news, spread on X.