Are recent crackdowns on digital freedoms tackling hate speech or increasing censorship?

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

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

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

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

The crackdown on protest has culminated in the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. This draconian ...

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 on Censorship is the UK partner for the USA Coalition, which runs ‘Banned Books Week’. Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books ...