Freedom of Speech / Censorship

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Thursday designated a member of the Pussy Riot punk band, a prominent art collector and...

By Clare Jim and Sara Cheng HONG KONG (Reuters) -Two former senior editors of Hong Kong's Stand News were charged...

By Anton Zverev MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of the Russian human rights group Memorial said on Wednesday that he...

By Edmond Ng and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong pro-democracy media outlet Stand News shut down on Wednesday...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong pro-democracy media outlet Stand News said on Wednesday it would shut down after police...

By Joyce Zhou HONG KONG (Reuters) - The sculptor of a statue commemorating the victims of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union said on Monday a Polish law that critics say aims to silence a news...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A freelance video journalist accredited to the Associated Press and two other local journalists have been detained...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's foreign minister criticised what she called the "unacceptable pressure" by China after Lithuania's diplomatic delegation left...

HANOI (Reuters) - A Vietnamese court on Wednesday handed lengthy terms of jail and house arrest to two Facebook users...

HANOI (Reuters) - A court in Vietnam jailed a journalist and prominent dissident for nine years on Tuesday for anti-state...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold a special session on Friday on the "grave" situation...

(Reuters) - Protesters in Myanmar closed businesses and stayed off the streets on Friday in a "silent strike" against rule...

(Reuters) - Myanmar's military government accused senior United Nations officials on Thursday of interference and making judgments based on "distorted...

By Helen Coster (Reuters) - The number of journalists worldwide who are behind bars reached a global high in 2021,...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia stepped up state oversight of internet activity on Wednesday by blocking the website of global privacy...

By Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) - U.S. news organizations that grappled with issues of race and bias in their coverage after...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic and Republican U.S. senators announced legislation on Thursday that would impose sanctions over an alleged plot...

By James Pearson (Reuters) - Facebook has removed a network of accounts from its platform which it said targeted Vietnamese...

BEIJING (Reuters) -Security officials in one of China's largest provinces have commissioned a surveillance system they say they want to...