Freedom of Speech / Censorship

By Natalia Zinets and Ilya Zhegulev KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's third-largest bank dismissed its chairman on Monday after a Kyiv...

By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) -Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa used her new prominence to criticise Facebook as a...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish court on Friday acquitted all 19 defendants charged over their participation in an LGBT+ Pride...

By Natalia Zinets and Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's third-biggest bank suspended its chairman on Wednesday after a video...

By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo has agreed to pardon an academic jailed last month for...

(Reuters) -Here are highlights of Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam's annual policy address on Wednesday, the last in her current...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's parliament has approved a law that gives broad powers to the government to deal with foreign...

By Issam Abdallah BEIRUT (Reuters) - A theatre director whose play was reported to the Lebanese authorities for allegedly criticising...

WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland will summon the British ambassador to explain why a journalist accused of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and the...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who stirred worldwide controversy in 2007 with drawings depicting the Prophet Mohammad with...

By Anton Zverev and Tom Balmforth MOSCOW (Reuters) -The editor of a Russian news outlet that angered the Kremlin with...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Wednesday declared the OVD-Info protest monitoring group that played a major role in documenting anti-Kremlin...

By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Chinese language community news groups in Australia are publishing news censored by translators they...

By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) - This year's Nobel Peace Prize could go to exiled Belarusian dissident Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, climate...

By Pak Yiu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's legislature on Wednesday passed a privacy law tackling "doxxing" - the...

By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Friday listed more than 100 instances of what it said was...

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights chief called on Belarus' neighbours on Friday to protect...

By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union's executive said on Thursday that risks to media freedom in Poland persisted...

By Alicja Ptak WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland's broadcasting regulator on Wednesday extended an operating licence for the popular U.S.-owned, anti-government news...

WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland's Constitutional Tribunal on Wednesday adjourned its sitting on whether the country's constitution or European Union treaties take...