Category : News and features
“I have gone through hell”: assault, starvation, discrimination
An Afghan journalist says her escape from the Taliban to Pakistan has only gone to show why the UK government must do more Hong Kong’s travesty of a show trial begins
The Hong Kong 47 are now on trial. There is nothing free or fair about this Iran’s erased women remembered
A new exhibition by Soheila Sokhanvari celebrates Iranian freedom and womanhood Two years on: The dwindling freedoms following Myanmar’s military coup
On the second anniversary of the coup, democracy in the country is slipping further away. A Burmese-led organisation and an exiled journalist describe the landscape Brazil is falling into an abyss
Attacks on free expression in the country are the worst since the dictatorship ended in 1985, writes a journalist from Brazil Those who refuse to despair
Today, 27 January, is the birthday of our former colleague Andrei Aliaksandrau, another one spent in jail thanks to his opposition to the regime of dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka in Belarus New play gives a voice to the forgotten Crimean Tatars
The powerful work tells the stories of indigenous Tatar dissidents and their families on the Russian-occupied peninsula We need to end SLAPPs now
The UK’s legal structure continues to let oligarchs bully reporters Major new global free expression index sees UK ranking stumble across academic, digital and media freedom
A major new global ranking index tracking the state of free expression is published today Ntwali’s death is a huge loss for Rwanda’s challenging media landscape
The journalist was one of the few to challenge the long-standing president. Who will speak out now? ‘We won!’ Maria Ressa’s victory is a win for global media freedom
As a Philippines tax court acquits veteran journalist Maria Ressa, she and Rappler celebrate - and continue to hold the line Join our Twitter storm of protest against Salma al-Shehab’s 34-year sentence
On Sunday 15 January, we mark the two-year anniversary of the arrest of the University of Leeds student on her return home to Saudi Arabia
