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• Human Rights and Freedoms

  Britain: Rights groups back openDemocracy journalism in face of legal threat

  5 October

  Leading media freedom organisations call for libel action against ‘public interest’ journalism to be dropped
  A group of influential rights organisations have signalled their strong support for openDemocracy’s “public interest” journalism in the face of legal threats, in a joint statement calling (...)

• Human Rights and Freedoms

  Britain: Serious Disruption Prevention Orders are the start of a new chapter of repressive police surveillance

  27 May, by The Network for Police Monitoring

  Like previous government restrictions on an individual’s liberty to ‘protect the public’, Serious Disruption Prevention Orders are the end-point of increasing state repression
  The inclusion in the government’s new Public Order Bill of new Serious Disruption Prevention Orders – banning individuals (...)

• Human Rights and Freedoms

  Britain: The rightwing defence of ’academic freedom’ masks a McCarthyite agenda

  4 August 2020, by PORTES Jonathan

  Are rightwing academics being silenced? The Policy Exchange thinktank says they are – and it has plans for cracking down.
  Another day, another skirmish in Britain’s culture war. Once again, universities have found themselves on the frontline. According to a report from the thinktank Policy (...)