Malaysia and South East Asia: Freedom of Expression and Information
General overview of South East Asia – a region of approximately 600 million people Table 1 No Country Legal System 1 Malaysia English common law/personal…
Something‘s Rotten: How Denmark Is Criminalizing Blasphemy Through Hate Speech Law
February 14th marked the first anniversary of the deadly attack against a free speech debate in Copenhagen, which left one person dead. This individual was killed by an Islamist seemingly intent on…
Submission on the Prevention and Combatting of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill
Abstract The following brief was submitted in response to The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development of South Africa’s Prevention and Combatting of Hate Crimes…
South Korea: Litigating on the Free Flow of Information
1. Most important 5 case laws and why? A. Online Real-Name Case, Constitutional Court of Korea, 2010 Honma 47, Aug. 23, 2012 [invalidating the Act…
Lillo-Stenberg v. Norway
Egeland and Hanseid v. Norway
On April 16, 2009, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found that the Norwegian Supreme Court judgment convicting and fining…
Bond v. Floyd
The ruling marked a departure from earlier legal doctrines regarding the scope of the First Amendment concerning antiwar activism and free speech. Unlike previous rulings,…
Norwegian Prosecution Authority v. X, Y and Z
“Hashtag Palestine 2018”: Digital Rights of Palestinians Between Restrictive Legislations and the Complicity of Internet Companies
This report was originally published by the Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media and is republished here with permission and thanks. 7amleh –…