“Whistleblowers in Nigeria’s healthcare system often encounter retaliation, including threats, suspension or sacking, and ...

Campaigner Peter Tatchell was detained on Saturday in a case that shows all that’s going wrong with free speech in the UK ...

On the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus, Index explores how healthcare is being used as a ...

“Saudi Arabia criticised for ignoring the USA’s appalling human rights record” – that was the headline on satirical website News Thump, spoofing this week’s arms deal between the two countries. In ...

Index rounds up of some of the key stories covering censorship and free expression from the past seven days ...

Index has written to the UK's Foreign Secretary regarding the unjust treatment of the British citizen in Saudi Arabia ...

Every philosopher, prophet, scientist and great political and social reformer of their day has started as a heretic. Mohammad blasphemed against the polytheist social order of Mecca, Jesus against the ...

Bulent Esroy, a popular transsexual singer in Turkey, was acquitted yesterday of charges of ‘turning the people against military service’. Esroy had spoken out against the military campaign against ...

I regard free speech as a fundamental good, the fullest extension of which is necessary for democratic life and for the development of other liberties. Others view speech as a luxury rather than as a ...

Liverpool John Moores University has threatened to sue a Conservative MP after he criticised its relations with the Libyan regime, Index on Censorship has learned. Robert Halfon MP, whose grandfather ...

The alleged killers of journalist Hrant Dink return to court today, with many groups expressing misgivings about the conduct of their trial, writes Charlotte Alfred The fourth hearing in the trial of ...