Freedom of Speech / Censorship

By Tom Balmforth MOSCOW (Reuters) -Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's allies accused YouTube and Telegram of censorship on Saturday after...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google and Apple have removed jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's tactical voting app from their stores,...

By Marcelo Rochabrun ÑUÑUNHUAYCCO, Peru (Reuters) - In Ñuñunhuaycco, a tiny village in the Peruvian Andes, residents recall almost daily...

NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's parliament approved a bill on Wednesday requiring owners of foreign social media and messaging apps to...

By Sara Cheng HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's security chief called on Wednesday for the city's main press association...

(Corrects paragraph 9 to refer to envoy by family name Zheng) By William James and Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -The...

By Maria Carolina Marcello BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian Senate leader Rodrigo Pacheco said on Tuesday he would not consider President Jair...

By Chen Lin SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's government introduced a bill in parliament on Monday to prevent what it called...

(Corrects paragraph 2 to reflect that the journalist is a woman) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has sanctioned four...

(Reuters) - Iran on Saturday dismissed new U.S. sanctions on four Iranians over an alleged plot to kidnap an Iranian-American...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -BBC journalist Sarah Rainsford left Russia on Tuesday after Moscow abruptly refused to extend her permission to work...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan launched a new English-language news and media streaming platform on Monday aiming to give it a...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in Baghdad on Saturday,...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's ruling party is set to revise a media law to rein in...

By Stephanie Nebehay and Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday that she had received...

GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet is to report back in the September-October session on the situation...

(Adds details in paragraphs 3 and 4) By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's Law Society votes for...

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong said on Tuesday new film censorship legislation will be introduced to...

(Reuters) - Beaten, homes raided, turned away from work for being a woman: the complaints made by some Afghan journalists...

By Sarah Marsh HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba introduced tighter controls on the use of social media this week, including a...