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 ...

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 ...

Rights groups and opposition politicians warn that Ghana’s proposed cyber law could hand sweeping powers to the state, stifle dissent and roll back decades of democratic progress.

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 ...

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 ...

PHNOM PENH: Cambodian parliamentarians passed on Monday legislation allowing people who collude with foreign countries to be stripped of citizenship, a law rights groups fear will be used to banish ...

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