Articles

"A short story about the diaspora's response during Iran’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests, as the anniversary of the movement approaches."

"The authorities use their subservient press to act as intelligence agents, feeding private information about individuals in order to silence and exact revenge upon them. Not content with hurling the most vile insults at me, they have also branded me with medieval stigmas to discredit me in their war against a just cause, a cause whose horrors and whose pain I have carried on my own shoulders, without ever once stepping back."

"Egyptian poet and lyricist Galal El-Behairy has now spent over five years in prison. PEN International is deeply concerned over his health condition as he pursued a hunger strike to protest his unfair imprisonment. We hold the Egyptian authorities responsible for his physical and psychological health and well-being."

"Former Pussy Riot member Olga Borisova explains to Index on Censorship how she became a political dissident."

"Gen Z in Nepal toppled the government through the power of social media, but Sonia Awale asks whether they know how to permanently change the status quo."

"Michael Deibert talks to youth groups in Haiti struggling for a voice amid societal breakdown for Index on Censorship's Winter 2025 Magazine Issue, Gen Z is revolting."

"Morocco’s youth have erupted against a system that invests in spectacle while its citizens die in silence"

"In Hungary, Gen Z have only ever known one prime minister: Viktor Orbán. They are now exercising their freedom of expression. And it’s not just at music festivals."

"On the morning of August 5, 2024, I woke to a silence that felt ominous. For weeks, Dhaka—the sprawling, restless capital of Bangladesh, home to more than 20 million people—had been alive with defiance. Students filled the streets chanting against the government, their voices punctuated by the crack of flash grenades and the sting of live rounds fired into crowds."