Literary festivals and schools should be safe spaces to talk about uncomfortable ideas

I’ve spent many hours over the last few years thinking about a man I’ve never met, Jimmy Lai. A newspaperman, media mogul and democracy advocate, Lai, 78, has been languishing in a Hong Kong p…

We express steadfast support for Massimo Moratti, MFRR researcher, as he faces an expulsion order from Serbian authorities

Macklemore, real name Benjamin Haggerty, said he was taken off Sheeran's tour after pro-Palestinian comments he made on stage in New Jersey prompted a backlash.

It has been just over a year since 31 journalists were killed by a single bomb in the Yemen capital of Sanaa

Campaigners urge Burnham to review UK’s “anti free speech laws” Big Brother Watch report reveals free speech is in “downward spiral” in the UK Former Minister turned Reform member Nadine Dorries backs...

Big Brother Watch exposes and challenges threats to our privacy, our freedoms and our civil liberties at a time of enormous technological change in the UK.

Tunisia faces criticism as prosecutions of journalists continue under President Kais Saied's rule.

Russian Shahed drones struck a university in Kyiv during classes; in Odesa, eight were injured and residential buildings, offices, and schools were damaged.

China’s Western admirers tend to celebrate the good, excuse the bad and rarely talk about the ugly

The country's journalists are being arrested without warrant, questioned over their reporting and forced into exile

‘We do not want to enter into controversy or offend anyone,’ says Deauville Municipality of Gaza photo's removal after requests by parties unknown | Anadolu

The Russian State Library (RSL, also known as the Lenin Library) has for several months been running a “closed repository for destructive literature.” Only intelligence service employees and scholars ...

Authorities in Egypt must release filmmaker and screenwriter Omar Salah Marei, who was arbitrarily detained and denied medical attention.

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) calls for the immediate release of prominent Bahraini human rights defender Naji Fateel, who was re-arrested on 18 August 2026, more than two years after his re...

Iran executed another detainee from the January protests after the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence, the judiciary announced on Sunday.

On August 8, 2026, armed men were wearing military uniforms and masks abducted activist and school teacher Bella…

Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan, co-leaders of the now disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (HKA), have been found guilty of incitement to subversion for...

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