Mali: Influencer and broadcaster jailed for criticising the junta
Malian broadcaster Ras Bath and influencer "Rose, la vie chère" were sentenced to 10 years in prison, three of them...
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Malian Prosecutor opposes provisional release of journalist
Imprisoned since the 8th of June, the director of the 22 Septembre newspaper, Chahana Takiou, was refused provisional release by...
World Cup solidarity for jailed French journalist rattles Algeria
Algeria’s football match against Austria on June 28th marked the first anniversary of the imprisonment of journalist Christophe Gleize,...
French influencer jailed in Morocco for criticising local drivers and police
A Marrakech correctional court has just sentenced a Franco-Algerian influencer to a one-year prison sentence for criticising local drivers and...
British columnist criticised over comments on Palestinians
On 6 January 2026, British columnist Melanie Phillips faced criticism after remarks she made about Palestinians at a pro-Israel event...
Martin Jay: Britain and the collapse of free speech
Britain, a country which practically invented the tenets of free speech, is now the most repressive, backward country of the...
Yossi Mekelberg: Eliminating journalists eliminates the truth
One of Israel’s best-selling pitches for many years, which has helped it maintain the support of the US and Europe...
Trump stuns UN general assembly into silence with fiery speech
On the 23rd of September, United States President Donald Trump gave a fiery speech that laid bare his ideological worldview....
Bruno Waterfield: suppressing debate is eroding our democracy
From a free speech activist assassinated in America to a Jewish conductor cancelled in Flanders, our democratic traditions and freedom...
Egypt: Jailed activist expected to be given presidential pardon
Prominent Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah is reported to be on a list of prisoners set to be given a...
Controversial Moroccan feminist receives prison sentence
The controversial trial surrounding the Moroccan feminist activist Ibtissame Lachgar has ended after Lachgar was sentenced to 30 months in...
What the Palestine Action ban tells us about western freedom
The UK government’s decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation marks more than just an escalation in the...
Tunisian inmate jailed for refusing to watch President Saied on TV
A Tunisian prisoner received a six-month jail sentence after refusing to watch a televised news segment featuring President Kais Saied,...
British Far-right activist Tommy Robinson walks free from court
Far-right activist Tommy Robinson, also known as Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has been released from jail early, marking another controversial chapter in...
Algeria jails historian over Amazigh identity comments
Controversy has been ignited in Algeria after the imprisonment of a prominent historian who, on the UAE Sky News Arabia,...
