The Serbian editor was gunned down outside his apartment in Belgrade in 1999 and those responsible have evaded justice ...

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Ai Weiwei was born in Beijing in 1957 – the same year that Mao launched the so-called Anti-Rightist Campaign. 300,000 ...

And despite all the heat around trade, Trump really likes Xi Jinping. Cancel that – he loves him, as he said at Davos in 2020 ...

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The voice of the Hirak movement faces the death penalty for highlighting the challenges facing the country's youth through his words This article is taken from the summer issue of Index on Censorship ...

A further crackdown on dissent this year continues the Supreme Leader’s bloody rule ...

Index talks to the acclaimed Chinese artist about his new book on censorship Forty years ago, on 11 February 1979, the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran, came to an end after ...

Our former editor argues that we need to have the courage and vision to support the Jewish community without destroying a fundamental and necessary right It is an astonishing fact that Zimbabwe, after ...

Since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak two years ago, artists have been active in breaking Egypt’s age-old taboos around sexual violence, especially since sexual harassment has been on the rise.