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A GCHR and ALQST submission to the UK media freedom inquiry addresses the status of digital rights, violations to freedom of expression and threats posed to journalists, rights defenders and online activists across the Middle East, while providing recommendations to remedy the situation.

Privacy International reveals how popular websites about depression in France, Germany and the UK share user data with advertisers, data brokers and large tech companies, while some depression test websites leak answers and test results with third parties.

Jones, a high profile media figure and activist, was assaulted in London by a group of men whom he believes are members of the far right.

Moosa Mohammed scaled the Bahraini Embassy in London in protest at the impending executions of Ali AlArab and Ahmed AlMalali. Staff at the embassy allegedly beat him and threatened to throw him off the roof.

The government’s white paper failed to accurately define “harmful” content, which risks sweeping up legal speech, including political expression, expressions of religious views and expressions of sexuality and gender.

A new law has the potential to pose a severe threat to the anonymity of people in the UK.

In considering whether to extradite Assange, the UK should also consider the detention conditions he could be subjected to in the US as a person charged with national security crimes.

The UK government has just released its proposal for tackling “online harms”, including how content on social media platforms should be monitored and regulated.

Gareth Peirce has spent 40 years fighting to overturn miscarriages of justice, many of which are the result of the over-zealous use of anti-terrorism measures.

Fifteen protesters were convicted after they chained themselves around a plane at Stansted Airport in an effort to prevent the deportation of asylum seekers.

The disclosures about GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 come less than a fortnight after a major UK mass surveillance programme was ruled unlawful by the European Court of Human Rights.

According to the European Court of Human Rights, the UK’s mass interception programme “is incapable of keeping the ‘interference'” with fundamental rights to what is “necessary in a democratic society”.

Over 30 NGOs have asked Manchester’s mayor to support calls for the release of Ahmed Mansoor, by naming a local street after the jailed human rights defender.

Ros Atkins quietly started an initiative to change the gender balance of contributors on his television news programme – now, more than 80 programmes are taking part in the BBC’s 50:50 challenge.

The parliamentary committee considering the Data Protection Bill is urged to drop amendments that would force news publishers to sign up to a state-backed regulator or face potentially crippling costs.

“News is something which somebody wants suppressed: all the rest is advertising.” Variations on this quote, originally attributed to William Randolph Hearst, have echoed around newsrooms for decades, with advertising and editorial kept separate. Nowadays, though, the line is becoming more blurred for the UK’s regional media.