Arizona prisons ban book 'Chokehold' about black men in justice system
Arizona has banned prisoners from reading a book that discusses the impact of the criminal justice system on black men, drawing outcry from First Amendment advocates who say the move is censorship. The American Civil Liberties Union called on the Arizona Department of Corrections this ...
Japan passes bill to drastically curb drone flights over military and Tokyo Olympic sites
The government on Friday enacted legislation severely restricting the flying of drones over U.S. military and Self-Defense Forces facilities, as well as venues hosting 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic events as a preventive measure against terrorism. The move has sparked protests from opposition parties and ...
China blocks all language editions of Wikipedia ahead of Tiananmen crackdown anniversary
Beijing has broadened its block of online encyclopedia Wikipedia to include all language editions, an internet censorship research group reported just weeks ahead of China's most politically explosive anniversary. According to a report by the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), China started blocking all ...
Court case challenges Facebook bans
A Polish group is suing Facebook for "private censorship" in a potentially landmark case.
Vietnam intensifying crackdown on online dissent, Amnesty report says
Vietnam has stepped up its imprisonment of political activists, Amnesty International said in a report Monday, intensifying a crackdown that has seen the number of prisoners of conscience increase by almost a third since last year. Nearly 10 percent of the 128 prisoners held in ...
Chelsea Manning refusing to testify at grand jury probing WikiLeaks
Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning says she'll refuse to testify on Thursday before a second grand jury investigating WikiLeaks. But if a judge finds her in contempt of court again, she could wind up back in jail. Manning spent seven years in prison for leaking ...
Three Thais accused of insulting monarchy have disappeared, rights groups say
Three Thai activists facing charges of insulting the monarchy have disappeared after reportedly being arrested in Vietnam, rights groups said on Friday, months after two exiled critics of the military and monarchy turned up dead. Thailand's deputy prime minister, Prawit Wongsuwan, denied the three activists ...
Chelsea Manning freed from U.S. jail after refusing to testify in WikiLeaks case
Former military intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning was freed from a U.S. jail on Thursday after two months in custody — but faces a possible return to the lockup as soon as next week, a support group said. Manning was jailed in early March for refusing ...
Singapore approves 'fake news' laws despite fierce criticism from tech giants and rights groups
Singapore's Parliament on Wednesday passed laws to combat "fake news" that will allow authorities to order the removal of online content, despite fierce criticism from tech giants and rights groups. They give government ministers powers to order social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter ...
Two Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar freed after more than 500 days
Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of Yangon on Tuesday after spending more than 500 days behind bars. The two reporters, Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe ...
Facebook bans Alex Jones, Louis Farrakhan and others for hate speech
Facebook has banned Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones and others from its main service and from Instagram, saying they violated the company's ban against hate and violence. The company said Thursday that it has also banned right-wing extremists Paul Nehlen, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson and ...
Singapore activist fined for Facebook post critical of courts
A Singaporean activist on Monday was fined for questioning the independence of the judiciary on Facebook, the latest case to highlight what critics say is the country's heavy-handed approach toward dissent. While it is wealthy and modern in many ways, tightly controlled Singapore is regularly ...
