The judgement has far-reaching implications for people peacefully protesting against oil and gas extraction who have been increasingly faced with injunctions.
Transparency International has appealed to the Turkish government to uphold the country’s constitution and international conventions it has signed, committing it to support the basic rights of freedom of expression and assembly.
UN experts are concerned that terrorism charges are being used to silence those who promote the rights of India’s Dalit, indigenous, and tribal communities,
The American Civil Liberties Union has voiced its opposition to a bill that would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is set to expire on 19 January 2017, without key reforms. The bill text was released on 5 January and may be considered by the House this week.
Civil liberties and race relations groups have demanded the Metropolitan Police Service abandon plans to deploy cameras equipped with facial recognition technology at this month’s Notting Hill Carnival.
The civil liberties and human rights organisation Liberty is launching a landmark legal challenge to the extreme mass surveillance powers in the Government’s new Investigatory Powers Act