The fallibility of technology means that the privacy of us all could be compromised, as new rules on age verification come ...

A panel at Index's latest magazine launch discussed the Trump administration’s attacks on state-funded media, the legal ...

There is growing pressure on environmental activists in the UK, the second most likely country in the world for protesters to ...

Index on Censorship is the UK partner for the USA Coalition, which runs ‘Banned Books Week’. Banned Books Week was launched ...

Transnational repression (TNR) is on the rise globally, fuelled by rapidly evolving technology, global democratic- ...

There are many questions around how age verification works in practise and what its consequences could be for our online speech ...

For years now people in Hong Kong have been perfecting the art of letter writing and sending them to the neighbours of ...

The 30 month prison sentence for Vietnamese human rights lawyer and blogger, Le Quoc Quan, was today upheld by a Hanoi appeals court. Quan, who has frequently blogged about human rights violations by ...

The Lord Chief Justice expressed surprise today at the BCA’s libel suit against Simon Singh. Padraig Reidy reports England’s most senior judge today said he was “baffled” by the British Chiropractic ...

A special investigation reveals more than half of UK school librarians surveyed by Index have been asked to remove books from their shelves ...

A major new global ranking index tracking the state of free expression published today (Wednesday, 25 January) by Index on Censorship sees the UK ranked as only “partially open” in every key area ...