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Hamit Coskun, found guilty of religiously aggravated public order offence, was ‘motivated at least in part by a hatred of Muslims’, judge saysA man has been fined after he set fire to a Qur’an outside the Turkish consulate in London, in an act that was…
John Casson says Cairo ‘fobbing us off’ by refusing to release British-Egyptian national Alaa Abd el-FattahThe former British ambassador to Egypt, John Casson, has urged the UK to advise its citizens against travelling to Egypt, in response to Cairo’s …
Report says British-Egyptian writer held for expressing political views and should be released without delayThe Britsh-Egyptian human rights activist and writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah is being illegally detained by the Egyptian government, an independent U…
University president says popular US singer was felt to have made ‘antisemitic, anti-Israel sentiments’, after she made statements including ‘long live the intifada’A performance by R&B star Kehlani at Cornell University in New York State has been …
Wera Hobhouse says her apparent presence on secret list of critics of country’s human rights record made her a targetUK politics live – latest updatesA Liberal Democrat MP refused entry to Hong Kong to see her young grandson has said her experience sho…
Vice-chancellors urge Office for Students to provide more clarity to protect students and academics from abuseA ruling by the higher education regulator for England on freedom of speech breaches at the University of Sussex has sparked anxiety in the se…
Livia Tossici-Bolt says she was ‘disappointed’ to be convicted of breaching Bournemouth clinic buffer zoneA woman who was given a conditional discharge after being convicted of breaching a buffer zone outside an abortion clinic in Bournemouth has claim…
Livia Tossici-Bolt given conditional discharge and ordered to pay £20,000 costs in case that drew US state department concernAn activist whose case had been cited by the US state department over “freedom of expression” concerns in the UK has been convi…
Nina Jankowicz, who led DHS’s disinformation unit under Biden administration, pointed to restrictions under TrumpA Capitol Hill hearing held to explore supposed government censorship under Joe Biden was based on a “fiction”, a leading expert on counter…
Exclusive: State department said to have raised concerns over whether new online safety act infringes on freedom of expressionUS state department officials have challenged Britain’s communications regulator over the impact on freedom of expression crea…