A high court in Pakistan has ordered that a police investigation be reopened in the case of Maria Shahbaz, a 13-year-old ...

A Christian teacher in Sunderland, who was dismissed after expressing pro-life beliefs when honestly answering a question ...

A Christian woman criminally charged for standing and silently praying outside an abortion facility in Birmingham has pleaded ...

Tom Bioly serves as Communications Officer for Alliance Defending Freedom in Vienna. He advocates for fundamental freedoms through public and media relations, with a focus on German-speaking countries ...

NORTHERN NIGERIA (11 August 2026) — A Federal High Court in northern Nigeria has ruled that Islamic religious police have no authority to arrest a young woman over her conversion from Islam to ...

LONDON (18 August 2026) – A Finnish parliamentarian has been blocked from entering the UK to give an address on freedom of speech at a conference this week, following her criminal conviction for “hate ...

Joint political declaration calls for an international moratorium on surrogacy ADF International moderates launch event at the UN and welcomes sustained momentum towards the global abolition of the ...

ABUJA (25 JUNE 2026) – A long-awaited hearing in the case of Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, set months ago for today, 25 June, was abruptly cancelled by the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Sharif-Aminu is a young ...

In December, the European Commission fined X €120m under the Digital Services Act, an online censorship law X is challenging the fine at the General Court of the European Union, with the support of ...

Tribunal upholds speech rights of Canadian campaigner Chris “Billboard Chris” Elston, striking down a government order that censored his X post under the country’s Online Safety Act. Censored X post ...

ISLAMABAD (9 JULY 2026) – A 13-year-old girl from Pakistan, Maria Shahbaz, is seeking justice in a Pakistani court after a previous ruling placed her in the custody of Shehryar Ahmad, the 30-year-old ...