Media freedom in Serbia is in a deepening crisis with a rapidly closing window for independent journalism to operate ...

The voice of the Hirak movement faces the death penalty for highlighting the challenges facing the country’s youth through his words A quarterly journal set up in 1972, Index on Censorship magazine ...

One early April morning, the newsroom of a Kuwaiti television channel skipped all mention of the sirens that had wailed through the night and disrupted everyone’s sleep. American and Israeli missiles ...

There is a new Bangladesh Nationalist Party government but the burning down of newspaper offices last year does not bode well for the future This article is taken from the summer issue of Index on ...

A Belarusian artist dies in prison. A British school teacher is in hiding. A singer in Iran is lashed 74 times. If the world ...

“I am staying in Belarus. I will not run. I am ready to spend time in prison for the chance to live in my homeland.” That was the firm—though now I’m no longer sure it was the right—decision I made ...

The beauty and power of Iran’s music is being strangled, with many musicians jailed and tortured purely for raising their voices against the regime’s viciousness and in harmony with those protesting ...

This article first appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of Index on Censorship, The monster unleashed: How Hungary’s illliberal vision is seducing the Western world published on 2 April 2026. Three years ...