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Arrested immediately after speaking

Source: Brian Allen on X — Watch as a US woman gets arrested while speaking - ostensibly for blocking traffic while standing on the sidewalk.…

AnnieJanuary 5, 2026

Censorship Press Freedom

Dr Aladwan under House Arrest for Speech

Source: Dr Rahmeh Aladwan on X — Dr. Aladwan effectively on a form of house arrest for lawful speech My bail conditions for lawful speech…

freespeechnewsOctober 24, 2025

Censorship News Abroad Press Freedom

In the UK, you can be arrested for “terrorism” for saying you disagree with a government decision

Source: Council Estate Media — Coming to the US next? At an anti-genocide protest, a woman was arrested by the Metropolitan Police for holding up…

freespeechnewsOctober 10, 2025

Censorship Europe News Abroad

In a country allegedly short on prison space….

Source: Stats for Lefties on X — 1,339 people have now been arrested in the UK on "terrorism" charges in 2025, with almost all of…

freespeechnewsSeptember 7, 2025

Censorship Foreign Policy War

Columbia University Suspends 80 Students Over Protests Amid Trump Pressure

Source: Haaretz — The university's renewed policy also includes giving campus security the authority to arrest students and increasing external oversight of its Middle East…

freespeechnewsJuly 23, 2025

Europe Foreign Policy News Abroad

UK police arrest protesters after ban on Palestine Action goes into effect

Source: Anadolu Ajansı — UK police have arrested more than 20 people on suspicion of offenses under Terrorism Act 2000. Unless an upcoming review is…

freespeechnewsJuly 5, 2025

Foreign Policy War

Police arrest Jewish Voice for Peace protestors at Philly arms manufacturer

Source: Jack Poulson for All-Source Intelligence — Jewish protestors were arrested by Philadelphia police on Wednesday morning while occupying lobby of Day & Zimmermann, a…

freespeechnewsJuly 2, 2025

Censorship Foreign Policy News Abroad War

‘Like a kidnapping’: How UK police are hunting pro-Palestine activists

Source: Middle East Eye — Homes raided, people approached on the street, called from unknown numbers, arrested without warning: how British police are cracking down…

freespeechnewsJuly 2, 2025

Censorship

Trump’s Authoritarian Leap

Source: Judge Andrew Napolitano for Consortium News — This is not constitutional hairsplitting. This is very serious business. If the feds can characterize an unarmed assemblage…

freespeechnewsJune 12, 2025

Censorship Foreign Policy Middle East

Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal’: Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault ‘War Crimes’

Source: HuffPost — The former Prime Minister of Israel, had he been a US exchange student, also might've been jailed for this column. Former Prime…

freespeechnewsMay 25, 2025