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Censorship

Credit Cards Cancelled, Google Accounts Closed: ICC Judges on Life Under Trump Sanctions

Source: The Guardian — To date, 11 of the court’s officials – including the chief prosecutor and eight judges – have been placed under sanctions.…

freespeechnewsFebruary 18, 2026

Foreign Policy

The Increasing Attacks on Francesca Albanese Presage a New Dark Age

Source: The Chris Hedges Report on Substack — This campaign is part of an effort to sustain the genocide in Gaza and silence all those…

freespeechnewsFebruary 16, 2026

Unfettered Speech

Sanctioned For Analysis: A Colonel’s Fight With EU Censorship

One morning you can speak, the next you can’t bank. Jacques Baud, a former strategic intelligence analyst and UN mediator, explains how the EU sanctioned…

freespeechnewsFebruary 13, 2026

Europe News Abroad Press Freedom

German Political Party Calls on Berlin Senate to End Sanctions on Hüseyin Doğru

Source: @SevimDagdelen on X — The state party congress of BSW Berlin unanimously declares solidarity with the sanctioned Berlin journalist Huseyn Dogru and the Swiss…

freespeechnewsJanuary 26, 2026

Press Freedom

Week 2 of the Sanctioning of Hüseyin Dogru

Source: Hüseyin Dogru on X — No food for dissenters in the EU. Entering week two with zero access to money after Comdirect froze the…

freespeechnewsJanuary 19, 2026

Europe News Abroad

Sanctions without measure

Source: Sahra Wagenknecht on X — The EU is resorting to starving the entire families of those who question their policies. Starving an entire family…

freespeechnewsJanuary 11, 2026

Europe Foreign Policy News Abroad

The EU sanctions regime violates fundamental and human rights

Source: Aya Velázquez on X — The EU has ultimately delegitimized itself with its inhumane sanctions regime: It is entering a neo-feudal era in which…

freespeechnewsJanuary 8, 2026

Europe News Abroad

Journalist Starved by EU with Zero Due Process

Source: Hüseyin Dogru on X — Huseyn Dogru is cut off from all commerce for practicing journalism. The Mainstream press ignores his plight. Previously, I…

freespeechnewsJanuary 8, 2026

Europe News Abroad

German legal scholar Dr. Dietrich Murswiek considers EU sanctions unconstitutional

Source: Henrieke Stahl on X — How is it possible in a democracy for criticizing foreign policy to be considered a crime? And how can…

freespeechnewsJanuary 8, 2026

Europe News Abroad

The EU extralegal sanction regime

Source: Pascal Lottaz— Really important story and terrifying. This is how democracy dies (again). By executive decree and bureaucratic smug. Well done, European Union.

freespeechnewsJanuary 2, 2026