FOR A DEPUTY-PRESIDENT who likes to claim responsibility for drafting a Secular Constitution and Bill of Rights that includes Gay Rights and other freedoms associated with the LGBT community, a visit to Iran must present a number of awkward problems. Chief of which is the Iranian Penal Code. Lesb...

THE Films and Publications Board has mooted a proposal for the classification of online content that could result in the removal of free speech and communications freedoms guaranteed by South Africa's constitution. The proposal would also seriously compromise the principle of net neutrality. The...

Adam Habib is the man at the centre of a storm surrounding United States' government ideological exclusions resulting from the Patriot Act and continued onslaught by the Bush administration on academic and intellectual freedom. As a blogger who believes strongly in these rights as well as the rig...

NEW YORK – A leading US civil liberties group mounted a legal challenge against the US government on Wednesday over its refusal to grant a visa to a leading South African Muslim academic. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the case in Boston challenging the US Departments of State and Homel...