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2025 is off to a repressive start, from secret police stations in New York to persecution in Russia, Kenya, and more.

South Korea rejects a short-lived martial law decree, ‘Wicked’ does not defy local censorship laws, ‘Family Guy’ can’t fly, and Australian breakdancer Raygun threatens legal action over a musical.

Police detained a pro-Palestinian activist in London under the UK’s Terrorism Act for, as the arresting officer put it, “making a hate speech.”

Authoritarian regimes around the world are cracking down on critics while Europe, Australia promise more tech regulations.

Plenty of free speech news out of Europe, the sedition crackdown in Hong Kong, efforts to control discussion of foreign governments in Canada and the U.S.

The Free Speech Dispatch is a regular series covering new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the world.

Censorship at the Olympics, press freedom wins and losses in Russia and Hong Kong, and more in this packed latest edition of the Free Speech Dispatch.

A ban on lying in politics? Illegal coconuts? We cover the latest from the U.K. and much more in July’s Free Speech Dispatch.

June 2024’s Free Speech Dispatch ranges from Israel to Hong Kong to Uzbekistan and more. And there’s even some good news!

Zhou Fengsuo, a Tiananmen student leader, tells FIREwhy the 1989 protests, and free speech more broadly, still matter in China today.