The filmmakers were taken into custody in Nairobi on 2 May 2025 and had their devices seized. They were released on 3 May ...

Kyaw Min Htun, a Burmese editor and reporter, moved from his home in Myanmar to the USA more than 20 years ago, seeking a ...

The shutdown of social media platforms silenced a generation but their protests kicked off a deadly response from the ...

Gary Wornell is a Canadian-born artist, photographer and videographer who emigrated to Europe in 1969. In 1995 he moved to ...

Tanzania goes to the polls next month but as these examples show it’s insulting to suggest the elections will be remotely ...

The defunding of USAID has had a catastrophic impact on Radio Free Asia and other independent news sources ...

The rise of citizen journalism in the USA has been a long time coming. But in the months since Trump returned to the Oval ...

That word civil is not one we can use right now for the USA, where the murder of Charlie Kirk and the response to it expose just how far we’ve drifted from basic norms of decency. The right-wing ...

Liam Scott is a journalist based in Washington and reports on press freedom and transnational repression. He previously ...

Index rounds up of some of the key stories covering censorship and free expression from the past seven days. read more ...

The Father Ted writer was arrested by five armed police officers on arrival in the UK over historic tweets on trans people ...

Skhvitaridze, who was arrested on 5 December, alleges that he faced torture whilst in prison, a claim that according to Amnesty has not been properly investigated. He was jailed for two years after ...