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

More than 30 organisations call on the Seanad to take action over anti-SLAPP measures, calling it a missed opportunity to ...

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

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

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 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 ...

Smears about the media made by US President Donald Trump have obscured a wider problem with press freedom in the United States: namely widespread and low-level animosity that feeds into the everyday ...

It’s been five years since the National Security Law was passed: how much has freedom of expression deteriorated in China’s special administrative region since then?

There has been significant commentary on the flaws of the Online Safety Bill, particularly the harmful impact on freedom of expression from the concept of the ‘duty of care’ over adult internet users ...