The bitterly polarised controversy over the status of transgender people has spawned attacks on freedom of thought and speech at British and South African universities

In the past decade alone, at least 17 journalists in Russia have been killed. Someone is getting away with murdering journalists.

Eritrea has taken over from North Korea as the country in the world where press rights are least respected, the Paris-based campaigning group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said…

Russia’s chief prosecutor, Yuri Chaika, announced on Monday that 10 people had been arrested in connection with the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, which he blamed on a Chechen…