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Our fundamental right to protest is being eroded in the UK and USA ...

Hamdan Ballal, the Oscar-winning Palestinian co-director of No Other Land, is released from a police station in the West Bank ...

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As huge protests continue to take place, harassment and violence are escalating Twenty five years ago this autumn the Berlin Wall was pulled down and a wave of euphoria swept not just across that city ...

“Dear Alexei, it’s been a year that darkness has fallen upon us – and yet, your ideas and your determination give us strength,” read a letter placed on opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s grave on 16 ...

Filmmaker and actor Gavin Hood reflects on his relationship with the late South African novelist, playwright and director, ...

On 28 March a primary court in the coastal city of Mahdia, sentenced two atheist friends, Jabeur Mejri and Ghazi Beji, to seven and a half years in prison, and to a fine of 1200 Tunisian Dinars ...