PEN and 72 NGOs urge UK to secure Jimmy Lai’s release
August 22, 2025
UK Parliament warns of escalating transnational repression
August 21, 2025
A coalition of 72 press freedom and human rights organisations has written to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, urging him...
The UK is ill-prepared to protect exiled dissidents, journalists and activists from the long arm of authoritarian regimes, according to...
A Free Speech Union (FSU) member was arrested in an early-morning raid after criticising his former employer in a private...
The Free Speech Union launches legal challenge over Thanet’s ‘free speech gagging’ order.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has ruled that Russia violated Google’s rights by pressuring YouTube to...
The government has confirmed Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson as the next Chair of the EHRC, in a move likely to shape...
A teacher has been sacked following a trade union complaint about social media posts in which he criticised “two-tier policing”...
A shadowy state agency previously used to monitor lawful but dissenting speech during the Covid lockdowns has now been implicated...
Local officials have raised concerns about a lack of transparency after it emerged that Warwickshire Police advised councillors not to...
Rev Dr Bernard Randall remains barred from ministry in the Church of England, more than six years after delivering a...
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