The Current State of Freedom of Information and Expression in Thailand
Thailand’s lèse-majesté law has been noted as the harshest in the world, mandating jail time of three to five years for crimes of defamation or…
Claiming Dissent: Address by Dr. Agnes Callamard at the Columbia Global Freedom of Expression Prize Ceremony 2018
2018 Global Freedom of Expression Prize Ceremony Low Library, Columbia University April 25, 2018 Tonight, we are celebrating both resilience and conviction. We are…
Thai Lawyers for Human Rights: The 10 Most Highlighted Military Court Cases of Year 2015
This paper, written by the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR), an organization dedicated to assist people affected by Thailand’s martial law, reviews the past year’s…
K.S. Park: Freedom of Expression Cases in Korea 2015
Professor Kyung-Sin Park’s presentations prepared for the annual Justice for Free Expression Conference discussing trends in freedom of expression in Korea in 2015. Download the full…
MENA region battles the infodemic: From fake news to hashtag-washing in the region’s ongoing information wars
This report was originally published by IFEX and is re-posted here with permission and thanks. While the world grapples with a global health pandemic, in…
Bahrain: An Analysis of the Legitimacy of Charges Against Sheikh Maytham Al Salman
This statement is concerned with the legitimacy of the charges laid by the authorities of Bahrain against human rights defender and cleric Sheikh Maytham Al…
Hate speech: The Dark Twin of Free Speech
On October 20 2014, an unemployed fifty-seven year old white Norwegian man entered a supermarket in an Eastern suburb of the Norwegian capital of Oslo.…
In Re Orphans From Syria
Academic Restraint in Brazil: Facts, Opinions, or Beliefs?
After a tense legislative proceeding, the Brazilian State of Alagoas passed a statute forbidding professors at public universities from giving their political, religious or ideological…