Index and other organisations issue statement as UK Members of Parliament debate a petition calling for the Online Safety Act ...

Enacted today, Australia’s ban of selected social media platforms for under 16-year-olds is the most sweeping attempt carried out by a democratic state to address online harms facing young people.

If you want to take the temperature of a nation in terms of free speech just look at how it treats its comedians. Countries with robust human rights records can take a joke, the reverse is the case ...

The guilty verdict delivered today in Jimmy Lai trial is one of the biggest signs of how corrupt and unfree Hong Kong has ...

Choose from our shortlist of 10 authoritarian leaders and vote on who you think has done most to crack down on freedom of ...

The case against Lee doesn’t end there though. The year 2025 has brought the show trial of Jimmy Lai, it’s brought fresh ...

Brazilian left-wing influencer Thiago Torres, best known as Chavoso da USP (roughly translated as the University of São Paulo’s swaggy chav), has faced increasing political persecution in the last ...

Under-16s have been banned from key online platforms in Australia, and young people's voices are at risk in the country and ...

A gift in your will is one of the most powerful ways you can support freedom of expression for generations to come. We don’t know what the future holds. But by leaving a legacy to Index on Censorship, ...

Russia’s “Father of the Nation” Vladimir Putin is overseeing a predictably grim 2025. He continues killing innocent ...