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RSF calls for collective negotiations between media outlets and AI system providers.

“The suppression of pro-Palestine expression across Europe is part of a broader pattern in which platform policies, state pressure, and legal frameworks combine to restrict legitimate speech and access to information” – 7amleh.

Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) affirms that this ruling represents an important step toward limiting impunity for transnational digital violations and sends a clear message that the use of spyware against activists and dissidents must not remain beyond judicial scrutiny.

The threat to pursue the deportation of Afghan nationals risks exposing already vulnerable individuals, including many writers and journalists who managed to flee persecution.

An open letter by PEN International and other media freedom groups warns that uncertainty over the World Service’s future funding threatens access to public-interest journalism worldwide at a time of growing global instability.

As Bahrain marks 15 years since the 2011 uprising, rights groups and MPs seek UK sanctions against the Interior Minister, citing evidence of torture, arbitrary detention, and the continued jailing of pro-democracy figures.

Six of Jimmy Lai’s “Apple Daily” colleagues received sentences ranging from 6 years to 10 years.

GCHR says the case illustrates how security-based charges and interstate handovers are being used to pursue critics beyond borders and suppress peaceful expression.

Roshaan Khattak, filmmaker, human rights activist, and post-graduate researcher at the University of Cambridge, has been receiving death threats allegedly linked to Pakistan’s intelligence service because of his research.

A landmark UK Supreme Court case examines whether states can use spyware against exiles abroad while invoking immunity, with major implications for accountability and transnational digital repression.

Following threats against a Pakistani Cambridge University postgraduate student who was researching enforced disappearances in Balochistan, rights groups call on the Office of Students and the UK government to develop robust protections for academics facing transnational repression.

IFEX joins rights groups in condemning global threats and legal intimidation aimed at silencing Palestinian organisations pursuing justice and accountability for war crimes.

“The Online Safety Act is a threat to the privacy of users, restricts free expression by arbitrating speech online, exposes users to algorithmic discrimination through face checks, and leaves millions of people without a personal device or form of ID excluded from accessing the internet” – EFF

Citing a new UN finding of unlawful detention, IFEX and allies urge UK action to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah and address his mother Laila Soueif’s critical health.