The Russian leader is revisiting the Cold War playbook by using mental manipulation to silence dissidents and its use is ...

Beyond Baku, we were disturbed to read this week of a Papuan news outlet, Jujur Bicara (also known as Jubi), which was ...

Russia is haunted by the ghost of Joseph Stalin. Dozens of monuments to the Soviet leader dot the country; his angular face ...

Angana Chakrabarti reports from the North Eastern region, where government advertising is used as a tool to control the media ...

At a time of growing conflict, threats and censorship, the shortlist for this year’s Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression award highlights the courageous work carried out by individuals and ...

Today is a day of despair – but it is also a day for those of us who genuinely care about free expression to come together to protect and promote it ...

Angana Chakrabarti reports from the North Eastern region, where government advertising is used as a tool to control the media ...

For many of us, specifically those who have experienced prison, Toomaj Salehi is the symbol of resistance against an autocratic regime’s oppression, and whose honest and unapologetic voice cuts ...

Rap is not a crime. Calling for human rights and democracy is not a crime. Standing up in solidarity with the courageous women who took to the streets to protest their rights is not a crime. Yet, the ...

Hybrid regimes, illiberal democracies, democraship, democratura: these are all slightly terrifying new terms for governments drifting towards authoritarianism around the globe. We have been used to ...