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COMMENT: An annual global human rights report from the US state department has declared that freedom of speech is under threat in the UK. The British are too polite to tell the Trump administration what we really think about that – but I’m not, writes Sean O’Grady

COMMENT: What human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger saw at the Palestine Action demonstration in Parliament Square was not public order policing – it was the suppression of lawful dissent, and the deliberate targeting of vulnerable people to send a chilling message: no cause is now safe from criminalisation

Peer opposed banning group and says fellow Labour peers and MPs are regretting proscription

Pope Leo, who became the first US head of the Catholic Church in May, renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza in July.

COMMENT: I never envisaged that, at the age of 75, I would be detained under the Terrorism Act while people screamed ‘Shame on you!’, writes environmentalist and author Jonathon Porritt

More than 500 people were arrested at the biggest demonstration since the group was proscribed a terrorist organisation

The law that saw hundreds arrested for supporting the group on Saturday should be changed, Lord Sumption says

COMMENT: Indicating support for a terrorist organisation with a placard should not be a criminal offence, as it is inconsistent with the basic rights of free speech, says Jonathan Sumption

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The assassination by Israeli forces of an Al Jazeera correspondent and his colleagues is a chilling reminder that, when international news organisations are denied entry to a war zone, the responsibility for telling the world of the destruction and the human cost falls to local reporters…