The revelations by Edward Snowden last June about massive, unaccountable surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and its British counterpart GCHQ have raised one vital question. Is there a global right of privacy? Binoy Kampmark writes
The United Arab Emirates stand accused of blocking criticism over their human rights record, according to international monitoring group Human Rights Watch. Alastair Sloan reports
Northern Irish town will host Reduced Shakespeare Company play, Padraig Reidy writes
Jabeur Mejri has been in prison for nearly two years for publishing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad on Facebook
New report from the International Federation of Journalists slams “continued deterioration of press freedoms”
A power outage prior to the screening of an arts documentary in Azerbaijan has raised concerns as to the government’s involvement in censoring artistic freedom of expression
Legal challenge expected against “draconian” new regulator, Duke Mangera writes
As thousands of Egyptians demonstrated in support of the country’s military, journalists were attacked, 49 people were killed and 247 others were injured in anti-government marches across Egypt on Saturday on the third anniversary of the uprising that led to the overthrow of autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Shahira Amin reports
After 42 years of political oppression in Libya, it was hoped that the apparatus of Gaddafi’s regime would be dismantled after he was swept from power. Vestiges of the despot’s suffocating grip on free speech still remain, and are still being used to suppress political expression. Alastair Sloan reports
A bill would blur the boundaries of discrimination in the United Kingdom, so that it no longer refers only to who you are, but what you do. This would be a massive legal change. Ian Dunt reports