The Online Safety Act could have been worse. When it was still a bill, it included a provision around content deemed “legal but harmful”, which would have required platforms to remove content that, ...

Opinion polls currently show that the new opposition party Tisza, headed by Péter Magyar, has a steady lead ahead of general ...

In 2025, press freedom in Europe was under sustained pressure, driven by legal threats, attempts at media capture and transnational repression. This pressure was compounded by an increasingly hostile ...

She longed for a normal life and to return to Moscow after years spent reporting on the war in Chechnya. She did return to ...

In the latest of our Letters from Afghan Women, a young woman talks about how doors of opportunity have been closed in the country ...

On Saturday, friends of the Slovak investigative journalist held 30 commemorative demonstrations to mark his brutal murder in 2018 ...

Index and other organisations call on the UK government to provide clarity over public broadcaster's funding at a critical time ...

In this, the first of our Letters from Afghan Women, one writer believes she will stand, fight and build a brighter, more progressive Afghanistan ...

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 ...

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 ...