In a recent article in Byline Times, Neal Lawson the executive director of Compass, a “good society” cross-party campaign group, asked why the UK government couldn’t just ban lying in politics. This ...

Following today’s grotesque scenes of Hamas celebrations in Gaza as four deceased hostages were returned to Israel, we pay tribute to the journalist and human rights activist Oded Lifshitz, whose body ...

Once lauded as bastions of American patriotism, media outlets such as Radio Free Europe and Voice of America are now being ...

Political opponents and journalists willing to challenge Lukashenka’s sham election face prison, exile or worse – but they refuse to stay silent ...

Author Mahmoud Muna and his nephew Ahmad Muna were arrested by undercover Israeli police with dozens of their books being confiscated This story should be told by Reality Leigh Winner my sister. I am ...

This article first appeared in Volume 53, Issue 4 of our print edition of Index on Censorship, titled Unsung Heroes: How musicians are raising their voices against oppression. Read more about the ...

On Wednesday, Index launched its latest magazine issue, Unsung Heroes, with an evening of powerful talks, poetry, and music from Joe Mulhall, Rahima Mahmut, Hanna Komar and Solá Akingbolá celebrating ...

The second Donald Trump administration isn’t even a month old, and yet it seems as though the divisive president has already produced enough headlines to get us to the next election. With sweeping ...