Fatemeh Jamalpour is an Iranian journalist in exile and co-author of For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women ...

As the Iranian government cracks down violently on protest, we go on the trail of a spray-painting grandmother who secretly keeps the words of the protests alive ...

A Tanzanian poet reflects on her country's president winning our annual poll of despots against fierce competition ...

New employment rules spell victory for Zelda Perkins, former assistant to the disgraced film producer and who was awarded a ...

It should now be clear to everyone that the year 2026 will be marked by the march of the far right further into the ...

Index talks to the people behind a new monument honouring UK-based newsgatherers who lost their lives whilst reporting around the globe ...

Is John Lee closing out 2025 in disaster or triumph? His harsh response to November’s tragic fire suggests the latter, at least on the surface. After years spent further tightening Hong Kong’s ...

In a secondary academy in England, a librarian is putting books into a box. Just moments before, they were proudly on the shelves, rainbow flags waving across their covers and words such as “queer” ...

Zoomers – the young people born between 1997 and 2012 – have been taking to the streets this summer. They haven’t got a common ideology but they are angry about the state of world and feel hopeless ...

This piece first appeared in the Winter 2025 issue of Index on Censorship, Gen Z is revolting: Why the world’s youth will not be silenced, published on 18 December 2025. Some 50 years after Mao’s ...

Free speech is increasingly a contested topic, and in this independent report Alex Fernandes looks at the different organisations – including Index on Censorship – which advocate for freedom of ...