Freedom IndexGlobal Free Speech
Global Free Speech covers international stories and trends affecting the right to speak, publish, and share ideas across borders. From government crackdowns to grassroots movements, this category highlights the global fight for free expression in diverse political and cultural landscapes.
Media freedom in Bulgaria faces entrenched challenges in a climate of political polarisation and legislative inertia, with urgent action needed by government and…
In the upscale Damascus neighbourhood of Al-Adawi, a blue metal door bears a sign reading: “The One Room Theatre.” The…
Berlin, September 25, 2025—Serbian journalists have increasingly reported being deliberately targeted by police, especially when covering police violence, as President Aleksandar Vučić’s…
Editor’s note: Zhang Zhan was sentenced to four years in prison on September 19 for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,”…
This article first appeared in Volume 54, Issue 2 of our print edition of Index on Censorship, titled Land of…
Washington, D.C., September 19, 2025—Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, which killed 31 journalists and…
In 2013, as part of research for my book on Chinese youth, I sat down with one of the country’s…
New York, September 19, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists and Free Press express outrage that journalist Mario Guevara faces imminent…
On Monday 8 September I drove into Bouddha on the north eastern corner of Kathmandu from my home in Besigaun.…
The Committee to Protect Journalists and Free Press led a coalition of 28 local and national press freedom, civil rights,…
Bombarded with news from all angles every day, important stories can easily pass us by. To help you cut through…
It’s been a week of political violence and while many might still be glued to news about the murder of…