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Riots broke out once again in Spain on Monday evening in the northern city of Bilbao as far-left activists staged protests to pressure the cancellation of an appearance by a right-wing influencer.

A seminar to train British cops about Islam used Nigel Farage and other Reform figures in lessons on “prejudice” and racial crime.

Britain’s Labour govt is driving away voters by having such a censorious approach to freedom of speech, Liberty says their study shows.

The belief that the United Kingdom is experiencing decline, the view that there are negative elements to modern life, and the feeling of unrest after terror attacks are among “far-right narratives” pushed by Russian intelligence that bear “no resemblance to reality,” Prime Minister Andy Burnham declared as he announced plans for a new National Centre for Information Defence.

A Hong Kong court on Thursday upheld a ruling against retired bishop and democracy advocate Cardinal Joseph Zen and four co-defendants for failing to register the humanitarian fund they created to help protesters arrested during the pro-democracy uprising of 2019.

George Clooney used a press conference at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday morning to defend fellow actor Mark Ruffalo from charges of antisemitism.

Britons believe the ability to speak freely on controversial issues without “legal consequences” has fallen under Labour, polling finds.

U.S. Republican Senator Ted Cruz has lamented the loss of liberty in the United Kingdom after a former police officer was convicted of a crime for reposting a meme mocking Islam.

A Fort Worth, Texas, police officer is under federal scrutiny after video surfaced showing her warning Christian street preachers that she could issue citations if their message was deemed “offensive.” This is a stance legal analysts say appears to contradict long‑established First Amendment protections for religious and political expression in public spaces. The Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division sent a letter to the Fort Worth Police Department warning of possible 1st Amendment violations by the officer.

Turkish stand-up comedian Deniz Göktaş was detained on Thursday while returning to his country for allegedly insulting Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan and for “publicly insulting religious values” during his latest performance.

Charges against a grandmother for offering advice to women outside an abortion clinic in Scotland have been dropped, in what is being described as a major victory for free speech in the United Kingdom

Proo-freedom lawyers publish speech bill to repeal decades of laws curbing freedom, proposing something of a First Amendment for Britons.

The redcoats of internet censorship are coming but an American midnight rider is coming to save Europeans from their own governments, the Trump White House teases, stating: “Reclaim your human right to free expression. Get ready.”

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Australia´s Parliament on Tuesday passed anti-hate speech and gun laws proposed after two shooters killed 15 people at a Jewish festival.

Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek revealed that the left-wing British government has barred her from entering the United Kingdom.

British broadcasting regulator Ofcom announced Monday that it has launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X social media platform over its Grok AI being used to create ‘deepfake’ sexualised images.

Hours after President Donald Trump warned Iran’s rulers against cracking down on demonstrators, more than a hundred Iranian Americans gathered at City Hall, waving the Lion and Sun flag and calling for reform. At the same time, a socialist group nearby protested ICE and voiced support for foreign strongmen.

The British government has reportedly reached out to fellow leftist-run Anglo-sphere nations Australia and Canada in an attempt to wage a coordinated campaign to potentially ban Elon Musk’s X social media platform.

U.S. doubles down on sanctioning UK and Euro-citizen pro-censorship activists, as anti-“hate” NGO boss launches fight against deportation.

The head of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) attempted to claim that his organisation is not a censorship outfit as he faces potential deportation from the United States for involvement in silencing American voices online.

A New York federal judge has intervened to block the Trump administration from deporting Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) CEO Imran Ahmed after the State Department announced sanctions against him and four other Europeans for waging censorship campaigns against Americans.

The EU expressed indignation and vowed retaliation on Wednesday over U.S. sanctions on the bloc’s former censorship chief Thierry Breton.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday that his government will seek to further expand restrictions on so-called “hate speech” in the wake of the Islamist terror attack against Jewish people on Bondi Beach in Sydney.

Police arrested two people who called for “intifada” during a protest following decision to toughen enforcement of hate speech laws.

A top EU official warned the U.S. against interfering in Europe’s affairs over critiques of the bloc’s censorship policies.

The State Department said on Thursday that America is “comprehensively reviewing our relationship with the Government of Tanzania” due to concerns over the “ongoing repression of religious freedom and free speech.”

Freedom under even greater threat as studies show a bench of magistrates far more likely to convict free speech defendants a jury.

Venezuelan 65-year-old doctor Marggie Orozco was sentenced to 30 years in prison for criticizing the regime of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro in a WhatsApp voice note in 2024, Venezuelan outlets reported Monday.

Former Eagles center Jason Kelce has made a Constitutional argument in favor of allowing NFL players to criticize officials without facing league fines.

Just days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, London Mayor Sadiq Khan fired a broadside at President Donald Trump.

An assassin murdered Charlie Kirk in part to “terrorize those who think like Charlie into silence,” Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said.

Lucy Connolly, a British mother who was jailed for over a year for a Tweet, said that she plans to work with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK during an appearance at the populist party’s annual conference on Saturday.

The U.S. State Department has found that the human rights situation in the United Kingdom has deteriorated over the past year, pointing to the growing level of censorship from the government.

A British teacher was sacked from Preston College over supposed “Islamophobia” after criticising the jailing of a mother for posts she made on Facebook amid last year’s anti-mass migration riots.

Police say a man they are seeking in connection to an alleged assault “boarded a flight out of the country in the early hours”.