As part of our series of dissident profiles, Index looks at Nasrin Sotoudeh, the imprisoned Iranian human rights lawyer who ...

In this letter from Mogadishu Central Prison young women’s rights activist Sadia Moalin Ali Hassan, 27, issues a plea for freedom. She was jailed last month for “insulting state institutions” and “inc ...

Drakulić was one of Europe’s strongest feminist voices and penetrating chronicler of the wars still being waged on the ...

The Bill, which builds on the 2023 National Security Act, would allow the UK government to label state-backed groups as terrorist organisations. Superficially there’s much to like. It’s clearly been ...

In this letter from Mogadishu Central Prison young women’s rights activist Sadia Moalin Ali Hassan, 27, issues a plea for freedom. She was jailed last month for “insulting state institutions” and “inc ...

UK news this week is dominated by a damning report led by senior midwife Donna Ockenden that reveals how more than 500 ...

In June 2026, Dr Mahrang Baloch was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court in Quetta, Balochistan’s capital. She and fellow Baloch activist Sibghatullah Shahji had been accused of ...

I’m a woman in the Afghanistan of 2026. Here, days tick like gears in a clock, each moment predictable, each night a mirror of the last. Adventure sleeps and routine reigns. This is my life. I wake up ...

Russian artist Semyon Skrepetsky may have achieved exactly the wrong level of fame. He was prominent enough to be known to the Kremlin – and to annoy them – but not so renowned that his murder would ...

The UK government has announced a ban on social media for under-16s and then some kind of social media curfew at night for children between 17 and 18. I’m pretty sympathetic to the idea that we need ...

“We don’t live on the moon, we live on planet Earth. We have to respect that we are not kings of the world, who can rule over governments and police forces.” These were the words of FIFA president ...