The directive from Kenya’s President William Ruto last week was clear: shoot protesters in the legs. It came just days after ...

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Above is the cartoon that led to the arrest of several journalists in Turkey this week. It appeared in LeMan, the long-running Turkish satirical magazine that’s been poking fun at power for over 30 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

This article first appeared in volume 50, issue 1 of Index on Censorship, A century of silencing dissent, which was published in April 2021. Sometimes, from the most trivial event or seemingly ...

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