There is no right to organize and bargain collectively without the right to strike. As workers face sustained attacks, this opinion from the International Court of Justice reaffirms that the freedom to withhold one's labor is a fundamental human right.

Read my statement after a visit to Serbia focused on freedom of expression, inc. media freedom, the right to peaceful assembly, and the protection of civic space. #HumanRights 👇 www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

Seattleites and visitors have the right to protest, and they must be able to exercise that right peacefully and without interference from law enforcement.

New York ACLU to rally soon ahead of lawsuit against Nassau’s buffer zone law Livestream here: m.youtube.com/live/bhOzBSv...

📍We're in Nassau County rallying ahead of oral arguments in our lawsuit against Nassau’s unlawful no-speech policy. As we said in court today: Nassau’s buffer law is unnecessary, stifles free speech, and violates Nassau County residents’ rights to engage in peaceful political protest.

NEW: Bellevue passed a law banning protest at houses. It won't stop anti-war advocates from coming to Rep. Adam Smith's house. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/bellevu...

Today, we have published a new advice and information page that explores the different laws governing free speech in England and Wales, including what we can post on social media, and what we say and hold up signs about at protests. https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/freespeechadvice

The gutting of the principle of legality – part of a much wider trend of constitutional regression in the senior courts' case law – continues apace. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

Abdallah A. lived in Germany since he was two months old and last year gained German citizenship. But now he’s been stripped of it because of pro-Palestinian Instagram posts, in a disturbing legal case that points to the rise of citizenship-on-probation.

Immigration make Britain brilliant

As AI creeps into every aspect of our lives, the data grab required to power AI also expands. AI and Assembly analyzes how AI threatens free assembly by clustering people without consent, amplifying social biases, and empowering authoritarian surveillance. www.sup.org/books/sociol...

Activists and lawmakers in Illinois are pushing to repeal the state's anti-BDS law, the nation's first such law. The campaign could serve as a model for more than 30 states that have since adopted anti-BDS laws. mondoweiss.net/2026/05/offi... #Palestine #Israel

With trial nearing for the remaining members of the Broadview 6, a new filing tonight offers insight into how the feds view the case after dropping the conspiracy charge: "All the actions by all the members of the mob were clearly foreseeable to each of them. They are all therefore responsible …"

Just what we needed - a Home Office "factcheet" on police powers

#Georgia 🇬🇪 @europeanjournalists.org, which is part of @mediafreedomeu.bsky.social, warned that since 2024, "the country’s media landscape has grown increasingly hostile & perilous," with journalists exposed to physical and legal attacks.

Oral submissions on the Policing Amendment Bill today. Submitter after submitter, including the Privacy Commissioner, the Law Society, the Privacy Foundation, and us, stating that the Policing Amendment Bill isn't salvageable and needs to be sent back for a rewrite.

Analysis of the New Zealand Policing Amendment Bill by the New Zealand Law Society Te Kāhui Ture o Aotearoa (Law Society) - provisions on intelligence gathering in public spaces (Part 1) and expanded powers to impose and enforce temporary road closures (Part 2) www.lawsociety.org.nz/assets/Law-R...

👉NEW -- I’m ex-police. Banning Palestine marches is wrong by Nailah Sharif Tommy Robinson’s protests are the real threat to public safety www.declassifieduk.org/im-ex-police...

Khalil says the Trump administration put him through a “corrupt and unprecedented” immigration process. buff.ly/ghRrmOv

"Between Licensing and Demonstrating" - excellent critique of Syria’s new regulation on demonstrations by the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR): snhr.org/blog/2026/05...

Protest injunctions: A quiet weapon against activism Analysis, May 9th Corporate Watch briefing warns of “two‑tier” system where civil injunctions pre‑empt dissent and criminal law punishes persistence ~ Scott Harris ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/05/09/p...

In January, a phishing message arrived on my Signal account, supposedly from "Signal Support." I was able to turned the tables on the attackers and get a unique view of the wide-scale campaign by the attacker's targeting journalists and politicians I was target #13,730 in their database.

‘In 1989, a young Orbán told the crowds in Heroes’ Square that it was time for the Russians to go home, just as protesters had demanded in 1956; almost four decades later, he was heckled on the campaign trail with the same words.’ @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on Hungary. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The attack on protest rights, with psychiatrist and writer Dr. Lynne Jones OBE, former Editor in Chief of the BMJ Dr Fiona Godlee, Emeritus Professor of Criminal Law and Justice Richard Vogler, and me chairing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbgA...

🔍🔍🔍 There's just over a month left to apply for our summer research fellowship on protest and the constitution. Full details at: https://consoc.org.uk/protest-fellowship-2026/ Please share widely and consider applying! 🔍🔍🔍

If you’re following the Rajiv Menon case in the #Filton6 trial and are confused about jury equity, here’s a short primer I wrote for @netpol.org last month netpol.org/2026/04/07/w...

I have curated this year's @publiclaw.bsky.social Special Analysis section "The Public Order Act 1986 at Forty", with six excellent contributions which together, I/we hope, offer an insight into the rich tapestry of contemporary protest law and policing in the UK, through that historical lens.

For those who can get to Cambridge we have convened an absolutely amazing panel to mark the launch of the Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Assembly You can register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/assemble-t... There will be a longer symposium during the day - do reach out if that may be of interest