If the signs weren’t there already, the US President’s speech at Davos made clear his intention to tighten his stranglehold ...

Lukashenka's political prisoners are seen as bargaining chips rather than people. Andrei, like hundreds of others, should not ...

Olga Borisova is a performer and human rights activist from Russia with Belarusian roots. In 2025, she was sentenced in ...

Bobi Wine is alive. Uganda’s leading opposition figure is currently in hiding following last week’s elections, releasing ...

As Yoweri Museveni celebrates 40 years in power, Danson Kahyana reflects on how the dictator has strengthened his hold on ...

In the UK, the political right also claims regularly that free speech is under threat from an overbearing state, policing ...

Today, Russian rap music made by women coalesces around Zhenski rap, a sub-genre that emerged in the mid-1990s. Starting with ...

The musician and activist writes about the freedom fighters, writers, poets and musicians who have inspired her ...

None of this is a substitute for full, unfiltered internet access, which in 2026 is a basic human right, and in Iran ...

Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei acknowledged in mid-January that thousands of people were killed during recent protests. The internet shutdown engineered by the authorities means that details of ...

Anshuman Mondal is a professor of modern literature at the University of East Anglia. His new book Racism and ‘Free Speech’ ...