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 ...
Purges have defined Xi Jinping’s leadership from the start. Just before he came to power, he moved against his then biggest rival Bo Xilai. It was a scandal that rocked China, and indeed the world (Bo ...
Today we woke up to the news that Jimmy Lai had been sentenced to 20 years in prison in his National Security case. Lai is 78 years old and has deteriorating health. It’s unlikely he will ever set ...
This article was commissioned for the Winter 2025 issue of Index on Censorship, Gen Z is revolting: Why the world’s youth will not be silenced, published on 18 December 2025. Members of Gen Z – those ...