UK-based lawyers for Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai targeted by Chinese state – The Guardian: ‘Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC said she had received threats via email and social media of dismemberment, rape and death, which have extended to her family in recent months.’

An important step to ensure independent and pluralistic media in the EU. The new European Board for Media Services, a milestone of the European Media Freedom Act, begins its work supporting the independent functioning of media providers ↓

Academic freedom is under serious threat in the United States right now. Even setting aside important values and principles, this is wildly self-sabotaging. The best research usually results from contexts in which talented researchers have academic freedom protections. The US is hurting itself.

"A quarter of the world’s countries have engaged in transnational repression – targeting political exiles abroad to silence dissent – in the past decade..." Freedom House documented 1,219 incidents by 48 governments across 103 countries, in 2014-24. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

What are the #FundamentalRights safeguards and implications of using the EU’s IT systems for migration and policing? A new @eurightsagency.bsky.social information tool takes you through the issues. Try it out: europa.eu/!bwy9pt

New bipartisan bill would deter SLAPPs — frivolous lawsuits targeting speech. The Free Speech Protection Act would protect journalists and everyone who wants to speak freely.

How authoritarian regimes are targeting critics abroad

A third of women in the EU have experienced violence at home, at work or in public, finds the @eu-eurostat.extwitter.link eurostat.extwitter.link / @eurightsagency.bsky.social / EIGE EU gender-based violence survey. For more headline figures across Europe see: europa.eu/!cfGdFT

Next Tuesday, 19 November, the @ourruleoflaw.bsky.social team and yours truly will be in Luxembourg to attend the hearing in Case C-769/22 (Commission v. Hungary - values of the Union), the case about the HU anti-LGBTI law where the COM relies directly on Union values. Follow us for live coverage.

Can strengthened legal protections support human rights defenders in National Human Rights Institutions? I argue for improved immunity provisions in The International Journal of Human Rights. doi.org/10.1080/1364...