Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila has decided to give her thoughts on the recent threat by Romanian authorities to impose a €20 million fine on investigative reporters who commit data violations. Dancila...

Human rights and digital rights NGOs call on Justice and Home Affairs ministers of the EU to reconsider the proposed terrorist content regulation, as its current form it will harm free speech, journalism, and access to information.

EU decision-makers should ensure that the new regulation on copyright complies with human rights including specific safeguards to protect free speech.

Reforms to outmoded and restrictive laws are underway in Spain after Unidos Podemos calls for change.

After leaders of the Italian populist Five Star Movement (M5S) called journalists “jackals” and “whores” Italian press unions have called on journalists to join protests. Journalists’ unions, FNSI and Usigrai...

Ireland has voted to repeal an outdated law on blasphemy. However, the country has a long way to go to with free speech. It now urgently needs to enact legislation on hate crime, which is a major problem in Ireland.

Two demonstrations took place on October 22 in front of the Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) building: one against censorship, and one in support of free press. The Forum of the Nation spoke out against the...

"We ask that he be released immediately," European Parliament President Antonio Tajani said in awarding Ukranian activist Oleg Sentsov the 2018 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The prestigious human rights...

The Lithuanian government rejected draft amendments to the law that would have allowed journalists continued free access to information held by the Centre of Registers. The audio recording of the government hearing on this issue was destroyed.

This July, the first section of the Criminal Chamber of the National High Court cleared six Straight Edge youths on charges of glorification of terrorism on social media.