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

Why? Because stories are powerful. Because reading can challenge the status quo.

Seanad to take action over anti-SLAPP measures, calling it a missed opportunity to protect freedom of expression ...

As veteran Turkish journalist Can Dündar told me this week, “Like many autocrats, Erdoğan is intolerant of humour.” He fears the chilling effect this latest crackdown could have. “This may silence ...

The Supreme Council of National Security announced that any action deemed supportive of Israel would be met with the most ...

Index and other organisations sound alarm over threat of extradition facing the Kurdish writer, journalist and poet ...

The city’s biggest ever Pride event showed once again that expressing yourself peacefully should be a right, not a privilege ...

It’s been five years since the National Security Law was passed: how much has freedom of expression deteriorated in China’s ...

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

When news broke on Monday of 17-year-old Sana Yousaf’s murder, it was first described as a potential “honour-based killing”. Yousaf, a social media influencer from Pakistan, had become a visible ...

In a recent article in Byline Times, Neal Lawson the executive director of Compass, a “good society” cross-party campaign group, asked why the UK government couldn’t just ban lying in politics. This ...

The peaceful island of Alderney was involved in the darkest chapter of World War II. Both residents and politicians have tried to keep a lid on this history but the silence is ending ...