Draft Israeli law to limit academic speech labelled ‘McCarthyite’
University of Sydney students and staff blast new ‘draconian’ protest crackdown
June 2024
Open letter in India calls for withdrawal of go-ahead to prosecute Arundhati Roy
Over 200 signatories urge government to reverse decision enabling action against writer under anti-terrorism law
May 2024
Hong Kong rejects western criticism of democracy activists’ convictions
Georgia police accused of beating protesters against ‘foreign influence’ bill
April 2024
Media freedom ‘perilously close to breaking point’ in several EU countries
Civil liberties network warns of decline across the bloc as a result of harm or neglect by governments
November 2023
Slovakian prime minister sparks alarm with threat to restrict media
Robert Fico describes leading broadcasters and newspapers as hostile and says they are ‘unwelcome guests at government office’
Hungarian plan to target foreign influence fuels NGO and media fears
Campaigners say ‘sovereignty’ law is further step by Viktor Orbán to silence critics and solidify control
Benedict Birnberg obituary
Pioneering lawyer and civil liberties campaigner who paved the way for the abolition of the death penalty in Britain
October 2023
How criminalisation is being used to silence climate activists across the world
Guardian investigation finds growing number of countries passing anti-protest laws as part of playbook of tactics to intimidate people peacefully raising the alarm
February 2023
Democracy does not always go hand in hand with liberalism – that is the problem
Letter: From Putin to Erdoğan, democratically elected leaders are routinely ignoring constitutional limits on their powers, writes Piergiuseppe Fortunato
January 2023
Racial profiling fears raised as Queensland seeks to expand police search powers
Bill allows officers in certain locations to search people for weapons without having reasonable suspicion
December 2022
Italy home to 11 of 100-plus unofficial Chinese ‘police stations’
Indonesia set to make sex outside marriage punishable by jail
September 2022
Rights and freedom
Iran condemns two women to death for ‘corruption’ over LGBTQ+ media links
Outcry over show trial, which follows Zahra Seddiqi Hamedani talking to BBC about abuse of gay people in Iran’s Kurdish region
August 2022
‘Erasing our existence’: Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ+ bill blamed for rise in attacks
Draft bill would criminalise identifying as gay and could see intersex people compelled to undergo surgery
June 2022
Prominent lawyer among dozens jailed for treason in Cambodia
Theary Seng receives six-year sentence in ongoing mass trial of government critics in Phnom Penh
May 2022
The Friday wives: how a quiet picket grew to push for change in Cambodia
After years facing arrest and violence as they fought for their loved ones, a group of women became a rare voice of defiance
February 2022
A no-fly list for unruly passengers? I have a better – and crueller – idea
Arwa Mahdawi
Air rage is out of control – but Delta Air Lines’ suggestion is not the way to tackle it. What we really need is a small child with a recorder
November 2021
US added to list of ‘backsliding’ democracies for first time
‘Visible deterioration’ in US civil liberties began in at least 2019, says international thinktank
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