Fundamental Rights / Civil Liberties

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Psiphon Inc's freely available internet censorship circumvention tool has about helped nearly 1.4 million...

MADRID - (Reuters) - A journalist who was detained while covering protests in Cuba was freed from police custody but...

By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Three more Ethiopian regions are sending soldiers to reinforce the national army in...

KYIV (Reuters) -Belarusian police searched offices and homes of independent journalists and human rights activists for the third successive day...

By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE(Reuters) - A Dutch court sentenced a 49-year-old Syrian man on Friday to 20...

By Silke Koltrowitz ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss voters are to get a fresh chance to decide on reforming their increasingly...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian investigative news outlet "Proekt" on Friday said it was closing down a U.S.-registered legal entity a day...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Friday that it opposed the United States interfering in Hong Kong affairs, in response...

By Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's Prime Minister on Friday accused the European Commission of "legalised hooliganism" for an...

By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) -The discovery of hundreds of graves of indigenous children, highlighting Canada's mistreatment of First Nations,...

By Fabian Cambero and Aislinn Laing SANTIAGO (Reuters) -A Chilean judge ordered on Thursday the release of two delegates to...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Thursday the White House is reviewing whether the United States...

By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's media regulator said it had suspended the news website The Addis Standard...

By Stephanie van den Berg and Bart H. Meijer AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Celebrity Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries has...

By Andrew Osborn and Tom Balmforth MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia declared investigative news outlet "Proekt" on Thursday an "undesirable" organisation...

By Andrew Osborn and Tom Balmforth MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia declared the "Proekt" investigative news outlet an "undesirable" organisation on national...

By Sabine Siebold and Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Companies in the European Union can ban employees from wearing a headscarf...

By Gabriela Baczynska and Pawel Florkiewicz BRUSSELS/WARSAW (Reuters) -The European Union's top court ruled on Thursday that Poland's system for...

LONDON (Reuters) - Four people have been arrested over online racist abuse aimed at members of the England soccer team...

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -A key clause in EU copyright rules complies with the bloc's regulations, an adviser...