AI’s biggest impact on history is deepfake technology. Erasing inconvenient truths or spreading lies isn’t new – Joseph ...

The university’s insurer pulled back and then university administrators barred her from continuing the work, at which stage ...

Index calls on authorities to drop all charges against the activist and his 12 co-defendants, who all face the death penalty ...

If you had told Sai a month ago that his latest exhibition would force him to flee across the world, he might not have been surprised. After spending hundreds of days hiding above an interrogation ...

On the outskirts of Sanaa, 28-year-old Badr Yaseen sits inside a four-square-metre salon. The interior wall is lined with full-length mirrors, and scissors, electric shavers, combs, and hair care ...

Today the Tackling Transnational Repression in the UK Working Group, which Index co-founded, sent a letter to the Home Secretary, Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood. It was in response to the UK Government’s ...

During a one-day mission to Budapest on 22 October 2025, partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Platform for the safety of journalists met with journalists, media representatives, legal ...

Following Belarus’s shock release of a group of political prisoners in August and September, Index went to meet them Index condemns these attempts to stifle free and open debate. It is clear that ...

Bombarded with news from all angles every day, important stories can easily pass us by. To help you cut through the noise, every Friday Index publishes a weekly news roundup of some of the key stories ...