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

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

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

Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition wants to impose what it calls “institutional neutrality” on the country’s universities. The ...

The partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) and the Council of Europe’s Safety of Journalists Platform today present a report which outlines the deteriorating situation for media freedom ...

One early April morning, the newsroom of a Kuwaiti television channel skipped all mention of the sirens that had wailed through the night and disrupted everyone’s sleep. American and Israeli missiles ...

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 beauty and power of Iran’s music is being strangled, with many musicians jailed and tortured purely for raising their voices against the regime’s viciousness and in harmony with those protesting ...

“I am staying in Belarus. I will not run. I am ready to spend time in prison for the chance to live in my homeland.” That was the firm—though now I’m no longer sure it was the right—decision I made ...