UK court sides with Icelandic firm over artist’s spoof corruption apology
Judge considering complaint by fishing firm Samherji rules artist Odee unlikely to be able to defend work as parody The property rights of Iceland’s largest...
Category : Freedom of speech
Somalia arrests another journalist as press clampdown intensifies
Detention of reporters for covering sensitive news is having a ‘chilling’ effect on free media in Somalia, say rights groups The arrest of a journalist...
Leading critic of Egyptian state jailed for six months
Free speech advocate Hisham Kassem sentenced for defaming former minister Kamal Abu Eita A court in Cairo has sentenced a former newspaper publisher, free speech...
Daughter of Hong Kong exiled activist detained by national security police
Mimi Mi Wahng Yuen, daughter of wanted pro-democracy activist Elmer Yuen, taken for questioning, according to local media Hong Kong national security police have reportedly...
Hong Kong issues arrest warrants for eight overseas democracy activists
Warrants criticised as ‘indictment’ of judiciary with three of those targeted, which include Nathan Law, thought to be in UK Hong Kong police have issued...
China should scrap ‘picking quarrels’ crime, says leading lawyer
Suggestion to abolish catch-all offence will be among thousands considered at Chinese Communist party summit China should abolish the catch-all crime of “picking quarrels and...
Nicaragua: Ortega crackdown deepens as 94 opponents stripped of citizenship
Some of country’s most celebrated writers and journalists targeted as critics condemn ‘totalitarian drift’ under 77-year-old president Prisoners flew to freedom – but Ortega’s not...
Hongkongers in UK ask Suella Braverman to ditch ‘repressive’ anti-protest bill
Exclusive: Letter to home secretary says bill echoes ‘dangerously broad laws’ that result in jailing of protesters Hongkongers in Britain have called on Suella Braverman...
Nigeria frees student arrested after tweet about first lady Aisha Buhari
Aminu Adamu’s detention had sparked widespread outrage before Aisha Buhari withdrew complaint Nigeria has freed a student charged with “criminal defamation” over a tweet he...
Tycoon who disappeared from Hong Kong hotel in 2017 stands trial in China
Canadian-Chinese businessman Xiao Jianhua will finally stand trial in case linked to President Xi’s corruption drive China has formally put Canadian-Chinese tycoon Xiao Jianhua on...
