This article first appeared in Volume 53, Issue 4 of our print edition of Index on Censorship, titled Unsung Heroes: How ...

Mike Smith has worked in the music business for more than 40 years. He is currently writing his memoirs. Liam Payne’s death ...

In the run up to the Belarusian presidential election, Index's Belarus researcher reflects on her own experience during ...

The new president has signed more than 100 directives that will alter the course of US policy. We look at how they will ...

Undemocratic states that seek to exploit soft power to hide their human rights abuses should be condemned, not celebrated ...

The Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender Diala Ayesh has been released, after spending almost a year in Israel’s ...

Our Freedom of Expression Awards recognise those on the frontline of free expression and whose work has contributed significantly to confronting censorship – specifically in repressive regimes around ...

The country’s rich literary history has been plagued by censorship and book bans ...

What do you do when your culture has been destroyed? When your studios, galleries, and universities all lie in rubble? How do you plan to rebuild when war continues? And how do you find hope amidst ...

Hoàng Minh Tường has published 17 novels. Seven of these have been banned from re-publication or circulation in Vietnam and two had to be published overseas due to political sensitivities. But the ...