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#UK: A must-read from @observeruk.bsky.social on how #China is carrying out transnational repression (TNR) against Hong Kong dissidents.
Featuring Lumli Lumlong, @chloecheung.bsky.social and many others: observer.co.uk/news/interna...
Last week I was in Serbia on a media freedom mission with @coemediafreedom.bsky.social. A spiralling situation defined by violence and smear campaigns, while authorities fail to even acknowledge the scale of the issue.
www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/serb...
Glad that Belarus political prisoners have made it into the news, even if it is in the context of another bad thing that Trump said. And glad I got to remind people of @indexoncensorship.org former colleague Andrei Aleksandrau, a wonderful man still in jail www.standard.co.uk/news/world/t...
Hungary: Investigative Journalist @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social Charged With Espionage Amid Smear Campaign and Surveillance Concerns👉 go.coe.int/ay7Nw
Alert by @globalfreemedia.bsky.social @article19.bsky.social @europeanjournalists.org @ifjglobal.bsky.social @indexoncensorship.org
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Urgent action must be taken to protect dissidents from threats and intimidation in the UK. That's why Index is a founding member of the Tackling Transnational Repression (TNR) in the UK, working to address TNR in the UK context ⬇️
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/08/tack...
#Serbia: After a joint mission to Belgrade, we are deeply alarmed by the state of media freedom.
Journalists face record levels of violence, death threats and smear campaigns.
The authorities must take urgent action ⬇️
www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/serb...
Earlier this month, we broke an investigation into a school in Greater Manchester that labelled its librarian a “safeguarding” risk for a book she stocked.
We can now reveal that the local authority upheld the complaint that destroyed her career⬇️
www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/grea...
Urgent action must be taken to protect dissidents from threats and intimidation in the UK. That's why Index is a founding member of the Tackling Transnational Repression (TNR) in the UK, working to address TNR in the UK context ⬇️
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/08/tack...
#China: We condemn the arrest and closed-door trial of artist Gao Zhen on charges of “defaming national heroes and martyrs.”
He must be immediately released⬇️
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Transnational repression (TNR) is on the rise globally, fuelled by rapidly evolving technology, global democratic-backsliding and the rise of authoritarianism and years of neglect by previous governme...
Transnational repression (TNR) is on the rise globally, fuelled by rapidly evolving technology, global democratic-backsliding and the rise of authoritarianism and years of neglect by previous governme...
