Index on Censorship

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Zooming in on privacy concerns: Video app Zoom is surging in popularity. In our rush to stay connected, we need to make security checks and not reveal more than we think	20
Forced out of the closet: As people live out more of their lives online right now, our report highlights how LGBTQ dating apps can put people’s lives at risk	8
Jennings	5
Sexism is president’s power tool: Duterte is using violent language and threats against journalists, Rappler’s news editor explains	5
Social media platforms have a moral duty to ban misinformation about vaccines: Two leading thinkers on vaccine hesitancy and misinformation debate this crucial question	4
“The idea is to kill journalism”: Kashmiri journalists on what it’s like working under lockdown, an internet blackout and a new draconian media law	4
Open book? In India, where people are forced to download a tracking app to get paid, journalists are worried about it also being used to access their contacts	3
Dying for the mother tongue: Why have people in Inner Mongolia recently taken their lives?	2
Another explosion for Lebanon: The blast in Beirut made international headlines. Even before that the nation was in turmoil and it has only worsened the mental health crisis	2
Royally silenced: As students campaign against lèse-majesté laws, the Thai exile and royal critic with a Facebook group of two million followers considers their fate	2
Generation app: How do diff erent generations feel about sharing personal data in order to tackle Covid-19? We ask people in South Korea, Spain and Italy	2
Sending a red signal: When a contact tracing app went wrong a journalist was forced to stay in their home in China	2
Italy’s bad internet connection: Italians have one of the lowest levels of digital skills in Europe and are struggling to understand implications of the new pandemic world	2
Macho, macho man: A toxic form of masculinity has infected politics in Tanzania. Democracy is on the line	1
Censoring the net is not the answer, but…	1
Down with a disclaimer	1
Emotional baggage	1
Speaking for my silenced sister	1
Long march towards cultural genocide: As news emerges of the present horrors happening in Xinjiang, an expert on the region looks at its recent history	1
Democracy versus the people: Mali has seen a government coup following escalating protests. What has caused the unrest?	1
Cartoon	1
Two faces of On Liberty: Liberal institutions are becoming more censorial. Is the philosopher John Stuart Mill to blame?	1
Salvini exploits “lack of trust” in Italian media: The reputation of Italian media is poor, which plays straight into the hands of the far-right politician	1
Bollywood’s Code Orange	1
The clockwork show	1

Dirty industry, dirty tactics: Miners in Brazil, Mexico and Peru are going to extremes to stop those who are trying to protest	1
Fighting back against the menace of Slapps	1
Lies, damned lies and fake news	1
Another black day for Poland: The attack on women’s reproductive rights caused mass protests. Duda’s re-election gave it legitimacy	1
Amin’s awful story is much more than popcorn for the eyes	1
Crown confidential	1
A climate of fear	1
Silent majority: A culture of fear has taken over Venezuela, where people are facing prison for being critical	1
Queer erasure: Internet browsing can be biased against LGBTQ people, new exclusive research shows	1
Killed by the truth	1
Unhealthy market: As coronavirus affects China’s economy, will a weaker market mean international companies have more power to stand up for freedom of expression?	1
Jennings	1
Exposing Saudi’s nasty tactics	1
Virus masks a different threat: China is using Covid-19 responses and Hong Kong’s new security law to reduce freedoms in the city state	1
Life under lockdown: A Kashmiri journalist: A Kashmiri journalist speaks about the difficulties – personal and professional - of living in the state with an internet shutdown during lockdown	1
The staged suicide that haunts Brazil	1
Chipping away at our privacy: Swedes are having microchips inserted under their skin. What does that mean for their privacy?	1
The eyes of the storm: Spies are on the streets of Uganda making sure everyone abides by Covid-19 rules. They’re spying on political opposition too. A dispatch from Kampala	1
There’s nothing wrong with being scared: As a journalist from Singapore grows up, her views on those who have self-censored change	1
A slap in the face: Meet the Italian journalist who has had to fight over 126 lawsuits all aimed at silencing her	1
It’s not easy being green	1
How to challenge China: How do we make a global power sit up and take notice? These experts offer advice	1
Fishrot, the global stench of scandal	1
The double closet	1
Fighting for Covid information: Meet the people who are ensuring that even those in the most censored environments receive accurate information on the pandemic	1
Inside story: Hungary’s media silence: What’s it like working as a journalist under the new rules introduced by Hungary’s Viktor Orbán? How hard is it to report?	1
China’s artful dissident	1
Who Speaks for IOWA? The owner of a small-town radio station talks about feeling ignored in the rural USA	1
Two letters	0
“There’s nobody left to speak”: First they came for the journalists. Then they came for the lawyers and activists. Who can speak out in today’s India?	0
Uncancelled	0
Turkey’s zealots still want blood	0
Hair apparent	0
Welcome to the Kingdom of Impunity	0
People first but not the media	0
In Focus	0
Features	0
Permissible weapons	0
Features	0
Perfecting the art of oppression	0
Looking back to when we looked forward	0
Special Report	0
The blasphemy obstacle course	0
In the name of liberty…: Our freedoms are being taken before our very eyes	0
A call to harm	0
Special Report	0
Cancel Putin, not culture	0
Stage right (and wrong): The playwright David Hare talks to Index about a very 21st century form of censorship on the stage. Plus a poem of Hare’s published for the first time	0
The not so secret garden: Better think twice before bathing naked in the backyard. It’s not just your neighbours that might be watching you. Where next for privacy?	0
‘Animal can’t dash me human rights’	0

America’s coming crucible	0
In Focus	0
Setting the story straight	0
Refereeing rights	0
The final chapter? The closing of Beijing’s iconic Bookworm has been met with cries of sadness around the world. Why?	0
Is there a (real) doctor in the house?	0
Out of the oven, into the fire	0
Bordering on media control	0
Denialism is not protected speech	0
Singapore’s elastic band of a Public Order Act	0
Putin’s pushbacks: Russians signed up for prosperity not oppression. Is Putin failing to deliver his side of the deal?	0
Crossing red lines	0
Tuning in to revolution	0
Cancelling Russian culture is today’s moral imperative	0
Comment	0
Lines of inquiry	0
When the Russians came	0
Modi and his angry men: India’s men are responding with violence to Modi’s increasingly nationalist war cry	0
God waits in the wings… ominously	0
Nonsense and sensibility: An interview with the bestselling author about society’s slide into a total surveillance state	0
One step ahead of the game	0
When the boot is on the other foot	0
Mexico’s truth stares down barrel of a gun	0
Not a slur	0
The mafia state that is putty in Putin’s hands	0
Sound and fury at political ‘bias’	0
Making foes out of friends: North Korea’s grave human rights record is off the negotiation table in talks with South Korea. Why?	0
Lived experience, to a point	0
Royal secrecy has no place in a democracy	0
A censored day?	0
Stripsearch: Putin, Trump, Bolsonora - macho or… nacho?	0
Raising Malaysia’s roof	0
The mice hear the words of the night	0
“Silence got us nowhere. We need to speak up”: One woman’s anguish and outrage over her sister’s disappearance and the millions of others into the concentration camp network in Xinjiang, China	0
Generations apart? We sat down with Turkish and Chinese families to hear whether things really are that different between the generations when it comes to free speech	0
An ancient virtue	0
This is no joke	0
Football’s leaving home	0
Classic case of cancel culture	0
Conspiracy of silence	0
Trying to shut down women: Women are being forced out of politics as a result of abuse. We need to rally behind them, for all our sakes	0
The Documentary Bolsonaro doesn’t want made: Brazil’s president has pulled the plug on funding for the TV series Transversais. Why? We speak to the director and publish extracts from its pitch	0
No corruption please, we’re British	0
The ‘truth’ is in the tea	0
Tearing down the ivory tower: Amidst the noise of the pandemic, a thriving Istanbul university was shut down with litle outcry	0
Special Report	0
Tackling Israel’s thorny politics	0
Presiding over bloodshed: The voice of the opposition is increasingly missing in action as Uganda approaches election day	0
The rape of Uganda	0
Music to Yemen’s ears: Could a new orchestra in Yemen signal the end of oppressive Houthi rule? These women hope so	0
Pinochet’s ghost still haunts	0
When the old fox walks the tightrope	0
Between the gavel and the anvil: A new short story about a Libyan author who starts changing her story to please neighbours	0
Russia’s great export: hostility to the free press	0
Bosnia on my mind	0
Time out: The star of the IT Crowd discusses online dating and introduces her new play, written for Index, that looks at love and deception online	0
Up in smoke: A semi-autobiographical story from the son of two of Argentina’s disappeared	0
Crowning glory	0
The man who blew up America	0
This is hate, not debate	0
The article that tore Turkey apart	0
Much ado about critics	0
Uncle is watching	0
A truly graphic tale	0
The democratic federation stands strong	0
France: On the road to illiberalism?	0
Culture	0
Restaurants scrub off protest walls: All signs of the city’s recent protest past are being removed in Hong Kong’s restaurants, shops and even libraries following the new security law	0
Scope for truth	0
Still shouting at 50	0
Always looking over our shoulders	0
The history man: One of China’s most widely read writers discusses a childhood memory of being punished for singing, alongside his short story, published in English for the first time here	0
The Sudanese revolution will be illustrated: A profile of Khalid Albaih, the politcal cartoonist dubbed “an enemy of the state”	0
Let’s talk about sex	0
The snake sheds its skin	0
Holding the rich and powerful to account	0
Will the real Xi Jinping please stand up? China’s most powerful leader since Mao wears many hats - some of them draconian	0
A race to the bottom	0
Culture	0
Are we becoming Hungary-lite?	0

An impossible choice	0
Left behind and with no voice	0
Tapestry of tyranny	0
Special Report	0
Banking on Russia’s poetic spirit	0
Comment	0
Stripsearch	0
Going graphic: Being a journalist in Mexico is often a deadly pursuit. But sometimes the horrors of this reality are only shown in cartoon form, as the journalist and illustrator show	0
Better out than in?	0
Poet who haunts Ukraine	0
Comment	0
Turkish and European courts failed me	0
Page turners or slow burners? New books reviewed on the murder of a Honduran activist, stories from a Tibetan town and a semiautobiographical account of an artist in the USA	0
The party is your idol	0
Culture	0
The Index	0
Don’t be afraid to say two plus two is four	0
Bylines, deadlines and the firing line	0
Why the Taliban wanted my brave mother dead . . .	0
How do you find 50 years of censorship?	0
All hail those who speak out: It takes great courage to defend what you believe to be right. We must rally around those who do	0
Battle cries	0
Becoming tongue-tied: China is one country that is forcing people to give up their minority languages. Others have also attempted it	0
A new world order	0
No country for anxious men	0
Change in the pipeline?	0
In Focus	0
Chaos censorship	0
Don’t let them call the tune: A professor debates the moral questions about speaking at events sponsored by an organisation with links to the Chinese government	0
Culture	0
Culture	0
Hope in the darkness	0
Mexico’s deadliest state: The government’s promise to protect journalists from harm is failing. Just look at the state of Veracruz	0
Speech patterns: The Eritrean writer on escaping one of the world’s most censored countries and now living in Trump’s USA. Plus a new short story of his	0
Bad seeds	0
The stench of white elephants	0
The write way to fight	0
Turkey changes its tune	0
Special Report	0
‘Threats will not silence me’	0
Abuse not part of journalist’s day job: A reporter in the Netherlands has won a landmark case against her online harassers	0
Seven tips for crushing free speech in the 21st century: Hey big guy, we know you’re the boss man, but here are some tips to really rule the roost	0
My dramatic tribute to Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe	0
The unbeaten	0
Back to the future	0
I wrote a play then lost my home, my husband and my trust	0
Con (census): Turns out national censuses are controversial, especially in the countries where information is most tightly controlled	0
Fighting back against vendetta Politics	0
Metal shows its mettle	0
A moral hazard	0
How ‘industrial football’ was used to silence protests	0
Windows on the world	0
Maya Forstater: Pile-ons and censorship	0
Practise what they preach	0
Out with the old? Donald Trump’s conduct during and after the election appeared extraordinary, but a look at US history challenges that	0
The dissident lives on	0
Report first, talk later…	0
The Index	0
Ganging up against the truth: El Salvador’s government do not want you to hear about a potential deal they’ve made with the country’s biggest gang	0
Speaking over the noise: In a year where there has almost been too much news, we reflect on some of the most important stories	0
Academically challenged: A Turkish academic who worried about publicly criticising the government hit a tipping point once her name was faked on a petition	0
The most dangerous man in Guantanamo	0
Extremists use virus to curb opposition: Covid-19 is being used by religious militia as a recruitment tool in Yemen and Iraq. Speaking out as a secular voice is even more challenging	0
Features	0
On reputation laundering	0
An unholy war on speech	0
Back-up plan: Don’t blindly give away more freedoms than you sign up for in the name of tackling the epidemic. They’re hard to reclaim	0
In the name of the father?	0
Loose hair in Tehran	0
Press under pressure	0
Poetic injustice	0
“Media must come together”: Interview with the New York Times’ lawyer on why the media needs to rally free speech. Plus Trump vs. former presidents, the ultimate machometer	0
In Focus	0
‘We’re not scared of these things’	0
On not being shot	0
Features	0
Will Paulina ever rest?	0
Keeping the faith	0
Don’t mention femicide	0
Victim of its own success?	0
Policing symbolism	0
Turkey’s newfound Russophilia	0
Whistleblowers	0
The war the world forgot	0
Tools of the real technos: The current autocrats have technology bent to their every whim. We’re vulnerable and exposed	0
Special Report	0
Fortress America	0
Willingly watched: Chinese people are installing their own video cameras as they believe losing privacy is a price they are willing to pay for enhanced safety	0
Monitoring terrorists, gangs - and historians	0
The truth is in the telling	0
Silent disco	0
Features	0
Stadiums built on suffering	0
I can run, but can I hide?	0
Metaphors and madness	0
Spinning bomb	0
Jamaica needs to be a republic – now	0
Fake it till you break it	0
Poland’s redemption songs	0
‘Humpty Dumpty has maybe had the last word…’	0
Not my turf: Helen Lewis argues that vitriol around the trans debate means only extreme voices are being heard	0
Features	0
Hong Kong’s valiants with a message for the world	0
Bearing witness through poetry	0
Palestine: I still have hope	0
Truthteller	0
Standing alone	0
Blogger flees Tunisia after arrest: After telling a joke, one Tunisian blogger had to flee her country to avoid prison	0
Crossing the line: Cartels trading in cocaine are taking violent action to stop journalists reporting on them	0
Censorship is still in the script	0
Manuscripts don’t burn	0
Why is the world applauding the man who assaulted me?	0
Identically bad	0
Laughing in Rwanda	0
Omission is the same as permission	0
Stripsearch: You’ve just signed away your freedom to dream in private	0
Nowhere left to hide? Privacy has been eroded in Turkey for many years now. People fear that tackling Covid-19 might take away their last private free space	0
Writer’s block	0
A question of trust: It’s hazardous to discourage thought, and to undermine trust, especially in a crisis	0
In defence of the unreasonable	0
It’s foul play in Kashmir	0
A bulletin of frustration	0
Who will report on Nicaragua? Bianca Jagger tells Index a clampdown on dissent and independent media is reaching new heights	0
Dream of saving sacred land dies in the dust	0
Think of the children	0
Special Report	0
Sshh… no speaking out: Historians Tom Holland, Mary Fulbrook, Serhii Plokhy and Daniel Beer discuss the people from the past who were guilty of complicity	0
Challenging Orbán’s echo chamber: Against the odds a new mayor from an opposition party has come to power in Budapest. We report on his promises to push back against Orbán	0
An arresting start	0
‘The light is no longer the light it used to be’	0
World loses titans of free speech: A look at the free speech advocates that recently passed away including Sir Harold Evans	0
Truth, down under	0
Knife-edge politics: An interview with Serbian journalist Ana Lalic, who forced the Serbian government to do a U-Turn	0
Past imperfect: The award-winning writer speaks to Rachael Jolley about the inspiration for her new short story, written exclusively for Index, which looks at the idea of ageing, and disappearing memo	0
Four more years? Analysis of the upcoming US election looking at the media, plus a new satirical short story in which a dog considers Trump’s re-election hopes	0
The Index	0
When comics came out	0
Weaponising difference	0
Culture	0
Autism on screen is gonna be okay	0
Putting abuse on the map: The coronavirus crisis has seen a huge rise in media attacks. Index has launched a map to track these	0
Hackers paradise: Hackers across Latin America are taking advantage of the current crisis to access people’s personal data. If not protected it could spell disaster	0
Can India survive more Modi?	0
Winning friends, making enemies, influencing people	0
Writing to the challenge: Orna Herr speaks to the Turkish author about his new short story, written exclusively for the magazine, in which Turkish people get obsessed with raccoons	0

Secret agenda	0
The price of revealing oil’s dirty secrets	0
Crimea’s feared dawn chorus	0
It’s time to put down the detached watchdog	0
Culture vultures: The extent of art censorship in democracies is far greater than initially meets the eye, Index reveals	0
No light at the end of the tunnel	0
In Iran women’s bodies are the battleground	0
Past imperfect	0
Will the centre hold? They voted for Trump in 2016 because their voices were not being heard. How does middle America feel today?	0
Comment	0
Blessed are the persecuted	0
The smile that says a thousand words	0
Russia’s Trojan horse moves closer to Europe	0
A right royal minefield	0
Modi’s singular vision for India	0
Culture	0
Dead poets’ society	0
Culture	0
War of the airwaves	0
Don’t joke about Jesus	0
Culture	0
Those we must not leave behind	0
The first steps: across Europe with Little Amal	0
The road of no return	0
Culture	0
Words under fire	0
The fatwa made publishers lose their nerve	0
Stripsearch: Ping! Don’t forget we’re watching you… everywhere	0
The Index	0
New tactics to close down speech: The news editor at Rappler speaks to Index about legal threats against the media outlet’s CEO, Maria Ressa, plus a report on Index’s recent work	0
A century of silencing dissent	0
Poland’s papal problem	0
The West is frightened of confronting the bully	0
Seeing what’s around the corner: Facial recognition technology may be used to create immunity “passports” and other ways of tracking our health status. Are we watching?	0
The people’s melody	0
Comment	0
The big deal: French journalists past and present have felt pressure to conform to the view of the tribe in their reporting	0
Jennings	0
Silence is not golden	0
Secrets, lies and a costly legal battle	0
Culture in the cross hairs	0
Speaking up for the Uyghurs	0
Nothing in life is free: An investigation into how much information and privacy we are giving away on our phones	0
The Qatar conundrum	0
The silent minority	0
A most unlikely ally	0
Keep calm and let Confucius Institutes carry on	0
Dissidents, spies and the lies that came in from the cold	0
Where silence is the greatest fear	0
Why journalists need emergency safe havens	0
Nollywood gets naked	0
‘The Satanic Verses is the rude contrary of the authoritarian lie’	0
Joining Ukraine’s battle for freedom	0
The unknown quantity: The Italian government is making efforts to cover up who and how many are trying to cross the Mediterranean	0
Shadowing the golden age of Soviet censorship: The Turkmen author discusses those who got in bed with the old regime, and what’s happening now	0
Moving the goalposts	0
Europe’s new Orban: Janez Janša, Slovenia’s new prime minister, is mirroring the extreme policies of his Hungarian counterpart	0
Fear and loathing in Belarus	0
Xi’s real China dream	0
Plays, protests and the censor’s pencil	0
Less than social media: El Salvador’s new leader takes a leaf out of the Trump playbook to use Twitter to crush freedoms	0
First they came for the female journalists	0
Taking on the lion: With an aggressive former army captain as president, Brazilian journalists are having to employ bodyguards to stay safe. But they’re fighting back	0
For the love of God?	0
Features	0
Worth a gamble	0
Out of sight, but never out of mind: Our interview with the director of a new documentary about the disappeared in Syria	0
Sounds against silence: Far from a bad rap here as Turkey’s leading musicians use music to criticise the government	0
Ticking the boxes: Voter turnout has never felt more important and has led to many new organisations setting out to encourage this. But they face many obstacles	0
A Cassandra worth heeding	0
Tracing Turkey’s disappeared: A centre looks into the forced disappearances of Kurds in Turkey. Will they find answers or obstacles?	0
King David he is not	0
Away from the satanic	0
How to ruin a good dinner party: We’re told not to discuss sex, politics and religion at the dinner table, but what happens to our free speech when we give in to that rule?	0
Special Report	0
The Index	0
Comment	0
Reaching for an emotional flak jacket	0
Politically corrected?	0
Controlling the Covid message	0
In Focus	0
The nurse and the poet	0
Culture	0
Special Report	0
Faithful foot soldiers	0
Poetry’s peacebuilding tentacles	0
Comment	0
Elephant that should be in Nobel room	0
Jennings	0
We academics must fight the mob – now	0
Russia’s exiled author writes back	0
The Theatre of Resistance	0
Bodies of evidence	0
Of course it’s not appropriate – it’s satire	0
Demand points of view: A new Index initiative has allowed people to debate about all of the issues we’re otherwise avoiding	0
Would the media lie to you?	0
A dissident hero	0
Mind matters	0
Masking the truth: The writer of The Vagina Monologues (formerly known as Eve Ensler) speaks to Index about attacks on the truth. Plus a new version of her play about living in a nuclear wasteland	0
Culture	0
We don’t like it – no one cares	0
Fifty years of Pride and prejudice	0
Driven towards the exit: As Bulgarian media is bought up by those with ties to the government, journalists are being forced out of the industry	0
Culture	0
Britain’s Holocaust island	0
The soul of Sudan	0
The enemies of those people	0
Features	0
The thorn in Vietnam’s civil society side	0
Life in action: The Lebanese director talks to Index about how police brutality has increased in his country and how that informed the story of his new play, published here for the first time	0
What is a woman?	0
Nigeria’s crucible	0
No winners in Israel’s ice cream war	0
A light in the dark	0
The real game is politics	0
Remembering Rex Cornelio: Months on from the murder of Philippines radio host Rex Cornelio we speak to those who knew him about his bravery and his awful death	0
Letters from Lukashenka’s prisoners	0
Culture	0
Testament to the power of theatre as rebellion	0
The Russians risking it all	0
So who is judging YouTube?	0
Women journalists caught in middle of a nightmare	0
How much distance from Mao?	0
Why Index has never been needed more: The world is witnessing an acceleration of illiberalism. We all need to be vigilant	0
They like it best when you say nothing at all: Whether from lack of options or an unwillingness to be inconvenienced, some of our life choices are curtailing our freedoms	0
Hey, big brother – we’re watching you: We will fight louder and harder for those whose governments have taken away their freedoms	0
We are all dissidents	0
Global leaders smear their critics: Dissenters beware - these made-up charges are being used across borders to distract and destroy	0
Women defy gunmen in fight for justice	0
Culture	0
Un-mentionables: The truths these world leaders really can’t handle	0
My autism is not a lie	0
Cigar smoke and mirrors	0
Truth in seduction	0
Features	0
When silence is not enough: The philosopher ponders the dilemma of when you have to speak out and when it is OK not to	0
Storytime is dragged into the guns row	0
Why should music be censorable?	0
Treat tragedies of the Ukraine war with dignity	0
Special Report	0
Challenge the gatekeepers	0
From hijacker to media mogul	0
Maltese double cross	0
Respect for tradition	0
The other half	0
A papal precaution	0
Obscenely familiar	0
A marriage made in transgression	0
Bars can’t stop a bestseller	0
Heart and sole	0
Playing the joker: The award-winning writer tells Rachael Jolley about the power of subversive jokes. Plus an exclusive short story set in a Syrian prison	0
Ukraine’s media battleground	0
Beijing’s fearless foe with God on his side	0
“Apple poisoned me: physically, mentally, spiritually”	0
India’s meaty issue	0
Losing battle for truth in Russian lecture halls	0
Statues within a plinth of their life	0
We should not be put up for sale	0
Governments seek to control reports: Journalists are facing threats from all angles, including new terrorist legislation	0
Ecce homo sovieticus: Decades after the end of the Soviet Union, Russians are still plagued by totalitarianism. It’s getting worse	0
‘Crimea has turned into a concentration camp’	0
Comment	0
Spain’s Lonely Voices: We trace the demise of many minority Spanish languages and look at whether others will survive	0
The Human Face and the Boot	0
Bulldozing freedom	0
A royal reckoning	0
My three years of hell in an Uyghur ‘re-education’ camp	0
What has the government got to hide? The new Irish government has to decide whether to block access to historic child abuse records	0
India’s Great Firewall	0
50 tech milestones of the past 50 years	0
Banning those who ban: Jemimah Steinfeld talks to the Kuwaiti author about a landmark case in the country that saw a ban on books overturned. Plus an exclusive extract from al-Essa’s book Guardian of	0
Bad blood	0
Burning through censorship	0
Censorship? Hardly	0
Worshippers of power	0
Fighting Turkey’s culture war	0
To better days	0
Special Report	0
Government hits activists’ online profiles: Journalists and activists are finding their social media profiles hacked and sometimes deleted in a clear harassment campaign in Azerbaijan	0
Suffering in silence	0
“Your limitless grief is a tale with no ending”: We publish the poetry of three Uighur poets – Abuqadir Jüme Tunyuquq, Idris Nurillah and Shahip Abdusalam Nurbeg – who have disappeared in China	0
Special Report	0
Protest works: Two activists on how their protest movements led to real political change in Hungary and Romania	0
The martial art of free speech	0
Handmaid’s Tale in Holy Land	0
Fighting the propaganda tsars: The Russian writer speaks to Index about why his books are sold wrapped in plastic and shares an extract from The Gospel According To	0
The Index	0
Fighting information termination	0
We walk a very thin line when we report ‘us and them’	0
Hong Kong writes: A Hong Kong poet talks to Index from the frontline of the protests about how her writing keeps her and others going. Also one of her poems published here	0
The Index	0
Politics or passion?	0
UK law risks criminalising the innocent	0
Beware the ‘civilisation’ battle	0
“The state won’t protect you”: The death of Robert Mugabe brought so much hope, but improvements to daily life have not come for Zimbabweans. Far from it	0
We could all disappear: The Bangladesh novelist on why his next book is about a famous writer who disappeared in the 1970s	0
America’s coolest members club	0
Divided by age and a TV screen	0
Special Report	0
Cultural amnesia in Cairo	0