The UK Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has announced plans to increase the maximum prison sentence for online abuse, or trolling, to two years....
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Rights groups call on UK to press Bahrain to release human rights defenders
Nine human rights organisations called on the British government on Friday to speak out publicly in the case of activists currently being detained...
Azerbaijan: Stop harassment against investigative journalist
The Azerbaijani authorities should immediately lift the travel ban imposed on Khadija Ismayilova and cease all legal proceedings against her....
Padraig Reidy: Collective outrage and imagined slights
Padraig Reidy explores when writers are attacked for using their imaginations.
Russia: Justice Ministry seeks to disband Kremlin-critical human rights group
The ministry has filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court to close the International Memorial Society, Jennifer Janiak reports
Azerbaijan: Protesters demand end to repression
Powerful pictures show thousands gathering in Baku as crackdown on government critics continues
Azerbaijan: Journalist Arzu Geybulla threatened
Azerbaijani journalist Arzu Geybulla has been the subject of ongoing intimidation via social media
Padraig Reidy: We all seem to be grieving for newspapers
Put two British journalists in a room and talk will likely turn to the managed decline of the newspaper industry in western Europe and the US. Padraig Reidy will miss the news agents most.
Romania: Audiovisual Council paralysed in middle of election campaign
As Romania heads into its election season, its television and radio regulator languishes. Zoltan Sipos reports on the trouble ahead
Painting over the Clacton Banksy? Does nobody understand satire any more?
All it seems to take is for one person to think that something’s ‘racist’ …