An Iranian women's rights activist who criticized plans to restrict birth control has been brutalized in prison and will probably be sentenced to a long prison term.

Making it a crime to insult someone, whether the supreme leader, the president of the republic, or you or me, shows contempt for freedom of speech. Few countries properly respect freedom of speech.

A lawsuit intended to force backpage.com to stop carrying escort ads was defeated.

This is good, because the aim of the lawsuit was to hold the company responsible for the fact that some escorts were trafficked. If the suit had succeeded, no one would be able to publish ads for escorts that are not trafficked.

Canadian scientists have publicly called on the government to stop gagging them.

The EU's latest plans endanger net neutrality in Europe.

An abortion harassment law in Tennessee requires doctors to give false information to women, then keep them waiting 48 hours.