Under-16s have been banned from key online platforms in Australia, and young people's voices are at risk in the country and ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, has been the country’s leader for 36 years, so tyranny is in his blood. His years of perfecting autocracy were on full display following the death of ...

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Russia’s “Father of the Nation” Vladimir Putin is overseeing a predictably grim 2025. He continues killing innocent Ukrainians and sending Russian soldiers to their deaths to sustain the ex-KGB ...

At the end of every year, Index on Censorship launches a campaign to focus attention on human rights defenders, dissidents, artists and journalists who have been in the news headlines because their ...

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Modi’s government has long seen the control of online speech as a guarantor of political dominance, both for their party and ...

The case against Lee doesn’t end there though. The year 2025 has brought the show trial of Jimmy Lai, it’s brought fresh ...

The Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Law regulations introduced this year are some of the most repressive ...

El Salvador's President Nayib Armando Bukele, self-proclaimed "coolest dictator", has had a busy 2025. Among his draconian ...