When news broke on Monday of 17-year-old Sana Yousaf’s murder, it was first described as a potential “honour-based killing”. Yousaf, a social media influencer from Pakistan, had become a visible ...

It’s been five years since the National Security Law was passed: how much has freedom of expression deteriorated in China’s ...

A version of this article was originally published in the British Journalism Review. Let me tell you about four brave journalists. One morning last May, Farid Mehralizada was arrested by masked police ...

Unsurprisingly dozens of lawyers, academics and human rights defenders have joined journalists in fleeing the country.

Denied the right to do my job, I’ve gone from reporting on the frontlines of the Israeli military campaign to fighting for my ...

In a secondary academy in England, a librarian is putting books into a box. Just moments before, they were proudly on the shelves, rainbow flags waving across their covers and words such as “queer” ...

It is ironic that the US president, a supposed champion of free speech, has threatened Bruce Springsteen for expressing his ...

Laws on foreign funding and broadcast content empower authorities to censor, prosecute and close media that provide vital ...

When photojournalist Linda Tirado was covering a Minneapolis protest in May 2020 – days after George Floyd was killed – she was shot in the face with a plastic bullet. Tirado has since spoken about ...

At Index on Censorship, we believe everyone deserves the right to speak freely, challenge power and share ideas without fear. In a world where governments tighten control and algorithms distort the ...

A growing number of UK journalists believe that the truth is shaped by those in power and many believe that media freedom in the country is at risk. UK journalists are also increasingly coming under ...