A Baku court has sentenced opposition journalist Khalid Garayev to 25 days in detention, dealing a new blow to Azerbaijan’s independent media at a time when its civil society is being subjected to an unprecedented crackdown
At first glance, Latvia’s New Wave music festival and the iconic London concert hall might seem to have little in common. But both have recently been embroiled in the fallout from the crisis in Ukraine, James Montague reports
Musa Kart faced nine year behind bars over a caricature of the Turkish president
The very personification of evil is invoked more often than not by those who wish to see his hand in simple things they do not like or do not understand
Nabeel Rajab was released without bail today as a Bahraini court postponed his trial until 20 January 2015.
Controversy surrounded Aleksandar Vucic’s Monday night lecture at the London School of Economics
Journalist from opposition newspaper Azadliq sentenced to 25 days of administrative detention, as jailed activist says she has been denied access to her lawyer
The prominent human rights defenders are facing charges of insulting government institutions on Twitter and publicly insulting the king respectively
Barring a u-turn from the Hungarian government, demonstrators will return to the streets of Budapest this afternoon to oppose Prime Minster Viktor Orban’s plans to tax the internet
When political cartoonist Musa Kart faced nine years in prison for “insulting” President Erdogan, his colleagues from around the world showed solidarity through their own caricatures