Media arrested, assaulted and disappeared in the name of Covid-19  

We knew when we made the decision to map attacks on media freedom during the current crisis that we would see examples of authoritarian governments using it as an excuse to clamp down on journalists and individuals. What we didn't expect was the scale of the problem. Read what our editor-in-chief wrote about this in the New Statesman this week.

Publications are being put under diplomatic and commercial pressure not to run cartoons, journalists are being gagged, detained and assaulted just for doing their jobs while governments are enacting new legislation or changing the rules on existing laws that makes it hard for the media to share information that could prove to be a matter of life and death.
 
Help us keep watch in these challenging times. See our map of attacks on media freedom here and report any new incidents here.     

Our Spring 2020 issue is now available

The latest issue of Index on Censorship is now available. In it we cover what's happening across the world from Venezuela to China. Our main theme is complicity, and how we as individuals can become complicit in our censorship, and also how people continue to fight for essential freedoms, such as the freedom to teach in Turkey, the freedom to talk about subjects that the government would rather were not mentioned in Venezuela and China, and how in Colombia powerful drug cartels are threatening journalists' lives.

We also carry out investigations into how much private information about you and where you go is held by mapping apps, and how news algorithms are helping promote anti-LGBTQ agendas.

If your friends and relatives would like to buy a copy of the latest magazine and support the work Index does, they can buy a digital copy from anywhere in the world, via exacteditions.com/indexoncensorship.