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 ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement this week of changes to Meta’s content moderation policies appeared to primarily be about building trust. Trust among users. Trust among investors. And trust among the ...

For more than five decades, Syria has lived under a repressive regime that has made freedom of expression a distant dream. Under Bashar al-Assad, expression was curtailed by repressive laws and strict ...

This week, 7 January 2025 marks exactly ten years since the Charlie Hebdo attacks, when Islamist gunmen stormed the satirical magazine’s Paris editorial office and killed 11 people over cartoons of ...

Following the Charlie Hebdo attacks in 2015, the best-selling Turkish novelist wrote for Index about how writers are staying silent on their self-censorship ...

Maha Ghazal is a Syrian journalist, feminist and civil rights activist. She was previously the managing editor of the website Madar Al-Youm. She is also a member of the Executive Office of the Union ...

As Mohammed Zubair’s case shows, the “world’s largest democracy” is still holding on to outdated and repressive laws that class journalism as a threat ...

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

Our Freedom of Expression Awards recognise those on the frontline of free expression and whose work has contributed ...