The contempt case against Rajiv Menon KC will have a chilling effect on defence barristers and on the right to protest ...

Pakistani documentary filmmaker and activist ROSHAAN KHATTAK, living in exile in the UK, was until recently a postgraduate student at Wolfson College Cambridge. Khattak’s research, into human rights ...

October 2026, the coalition announces a one-day relay on Wednesday 7 October for libraries across the UK to celebrate the ...

The voice of the Hirak movement faces the death penalty for highlighting the challenges facing the country’s youth through his words A quarterly journal set up in 1972, Index on Censorship magazine ...

Media freedom in Serbia is in a deepening crisis with a rapidly closing window for independent journalism to operate ...

A Belarusian artist dies in prison. A British school teacher is in hiding. A singer in Iran is lashed 74 times. If the world ...

The Summer 2026 issue of Index on Censorship looks some of the artists fighting back against censorship in times of conflict ...

Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition wants to impose what it calls “institutional neutrality” on the country’s universities. The proposals – which could become reality within a month – would prevent higher ...

Dr David Potter CBE, who died on 28 June aged 82, was a scientist, technologist, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He founded the pioneering technology company Psion in 1980, riding on the wave of the ...

My name is Sadia Moalin Ali Hassan. I am a Somali mother with a 12-month-old child who still depends on breastfeeding, care and a mother’s love. My child needs my presence, and I have a responsibility ...