Freedom of speech
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Daughter of Hong Kong exiled activist detained by national security police
Mimi Mi Wahng Yuen, daughter of wanted pro-democracy activist Elmer Yuen, taken for questioning, according to …
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Hong Kong: fifth person arrested for allegedly supporting overseas pro-democracy activists
Arrests comes days after Hong Kong issued warrants for eight overseas-based dissidentsHong Kong police have ar…
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Hong Kong issues arrest warrants for eight overseas democracy activists
Warrants criticised as ‘indictment’ of judiciary with three of those targeted, including Nathan Law, thought t…
- Culture, Documentary films, Freedom of speech, Human rights, India, Journalist safety, Media, Narendra Modi, South and Central Asia, Television, World news
‘Resistance is possible’: Ravish Kumar, the broadcaster risking his life to tell the truth about India today
The eminent journalist’s fearless reporting on India under Narendra Modi cost him his job and freedom. Now bro…
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India threatened to shut Twitter down, co-founder Jack Dorsey says
Narendra Modi’s government calls accusation by social media firm’s former CEO an ‘outright lie’India threatene…
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Jimmy Lai: editors from around the world call for release of Hong Kong media mogul
Leading global media figures among signatories backing publisher, hit with wave of ‘lawfare’ including legisla…
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‘Publishing these books is a risk’: Taiwan’s booksellers stand up for democracy
Detention of publisher Li Yanhe in China for ‘endangering national security’ has sent chills through island’s …
- Asia Pacific, Canada, China, Freedom of speech, Netherlands, Protest, Surveillance, US news, World news
Explainer: China’s covert overseas ‘police stations’
Two men in New York are accused by the FBI of being covert enforcers for the Chinese government. Such operatio…
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China should scrap ‘picking quarrels’ crime, says leading lawyer
Suggestion to abolish catch-all offence will be among thousands considered at Chinese Communist party summitCh…
- Asia Pacific, China, Freedom of speech, Home Office, Hong Kong, Politics, Protest, Suella Braverman, UK news, World news
Hongkongers in UK ask Suella Braverman to ditch ‘repressive’ anti-protest bill
Exclusive: Letter to home secretary says bill echoes ‘dangerously broad laws’ that result in jailing of protes…
- BBC, Elon Musk, Freedom of speech, India, Internet, Media, Narendra Modi, Social media, Technology, Twitter, YouTube
Indian ban on BBC Modi film puts Musk’s Twitter ‘free speech’ vow to the test
Use of emergency laws sheds light on fragile and fractious place social media now occupy in IndiaThe response …
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Hong Kong police arrest six for selling ‘seditious’ book at lunar new year fair
Six people accused of publishing book relating to 2019 protests in move critics say has spread terrorPolice in…
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Hong Kong pro-democracy figure Ted Hui sentenced to jail over 2019 protests
Former legislator, who fled to Australia last year, said earlier that any sentence would not harm his reputati…
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Hong Kong therapists convicted of sedition over children’s books
Books depicted sheep fleeing from invading wolves, which judge found aimed to incite hatred against ChinaA cou…
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Sri Lanka likes to laugh but our political reforms are no joke
Laughter has been far more than a coping mechanism amid repression and economic crisis – it has rid the island…