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Barcelona gallery will feature works on religion, politics and consumerism that have been denounced, removed or attackedEurope live – latest updatesWork by artists as diverse as Pablo Picasso, Ai Weiwei and the American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe…
Alsu Kurmasheva reportedly detained due to Radio Free Europe coverage of Russia’s military mobilisation for Ukraine invasionRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesA Russian-American journalist has been detained in Russia on charges of violating its fo…
Arif Ahmed pledges to remain politically neutral in his role and to ensure academic freedoms are maintainedEngland’s newly appointed university free speech tsar says his role is not to conduct “culture wars” and has pledged to be politically neutral in…
Statement at UN human rights council voices ‘disappointment’ after host country refuses to change restrictive lawsThe UK has asked the United Arab Emirates, one of its closest Gulf allies, to explain how it will guarantee free speech around the UN Cop2…
Censorship, data harvesting and purchases of foreign news outlets could lead to ‘sharp contraction’ of freedom of expressionChina is manipulating global media through censorship, data harvesting and covert purchases of foreign news outlets, according t…
Letter, spearheaded by Reading Rainbow’s LeVar Burton, includes 175 signatories calling on Hollywood to fight bans in US schoolsAriana Grande, Guillermo del Toro, Mark Ruffalo and Amanda Gorman are among the over 175 actors, entertainers, authors, acti…
Free speech advocate Hisham Kassem sentenced for defaming former minister Kamal Abu EitaA court in Cairo has sentenced a former newspaper publisher, free speech advocate and rights activist to six months in prison in a trial observers say constitutes a…
Report says IHRA definition has led to 40 cases against people and groups – of which 38 were cleared – and is stifling academic freedomsAn antisemitism definition adopted by most UK universities has come under fire in a report, which says it has led t…
Negin Bagheri and Elnaz Mohammadi receive three-year sentences but will spend about a month in prisonTwo female Iranian journalists will spend about a month behind bars as part of a three-year partly suspended prison sentence for “conspiracy” and “coll…
Editor of Novaya Gazeta accused of using foreign platforms to spread ‘opinions aimed at forming a negative attitude towards Russia’Russia has added respected journalist and Nobel prize co-recipient Dmitry Muratov to its list of foreign agents, a label …