Justices S M Subramaniam and P Dhanabal were hearing a habaes corpus petition of wife of a YouTube investigative journalist ...

The Madras High Court recently remarked that preventive detention laws were draconian and the state could not use it to ...

Pointing to what they called "draconian restrictions," tech industry groups are urging a federal appeals court to uphold a decision that blocked a Florida law aimed at preventing children from having ...

Passed amidst heated exchanges with the ruling Congress, the BJP sees the anti-hate speech bill as a weapon for political ...

Maraga urged Kenyans to reject what he termed “an egregious grab of public resources'. Former Chief Justice David Maraga has accused President William Ruto of undermining Kenya’s Constitution and ...

Civil society organisations (CSOs) in Asia face significant challenges. In countries under authoritarian regimes, they endure harassment, persecution or even outright bans. Colonial-era sedition and ...

With recurrent abuse of the NSA, the courts should now consider examining whether an order of preventive detention is actually preventative or punitive.

Premier Chris Minns defends laws, which have been condemned as draconian and infringing on the right to assembly by civil liberties groups ...

The New South Wales (NSW) Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that far-reaching anti-protest laws passed by the state’s Labor government earlier this year are invalid, because they breach the implied ...

Palestine Action Group, Jews Against the Occupation and First Nations-led Blak Caucus will file a lawsuit against the law ...