The Trump administration’s wholesale crackdown on free speech – and on free speech in support of Palestine in particular – extends well beyond the U.S. border.  In July, American activist Fergie Chambers was arrested in Spain on a U.S. extradition

Threats to subpoena news outlets critical of U.S. policy are blatant efforts to chill press freedom, and we’re speaking out against it. Defending Rights & Dissent joined the Freedom of the Press Foundation, PEN America, and several other leading press

Amsterdam police seized a server yesterday from Italian internet service provider Autistici/Inventati (A/I), acting on a request from the United States. A/I, which had supplied free web hosting and email services to thousands of left-wing organizations around the world since

The Treasury Dept. announced today that the United States is imposing sweeping new sanctions on the International Criminal Court, in an escalated attack on the court’s authority to investigate grave international crimes. The sanctions prevent the court from using U.S.

Civil liberties advocacy group Defending Rights & Dissent today announced the appointment of veteran human rights attorney and former board co-president Shannon Al-Wakeel as its new Executive Director.  Al-Wakeel brings more than a decade of experience defending civil liberties and