News about Freedom of Assembly, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Around 50 global civil society groups have signed a statement urging the Chinese government to respect the rights to privacy and to freedoms of peaceful assembly and expression of those who had been ...

On the other hand, Washington wanted to preserve freedom of expression on the internet and combat restrictions and blockades on offshore sites in countries like China and Iran; the Obama ...

BRUSSELS: The European Union (EU) has issued a stark assessment of China’s human rights landscape, declaring that fundamental ...

By Kyinzom Dhongdue, Strategy and Advocacy Manager, Amnesty International Australia "China’s intention to appoint its own ...

The Chinese government should respect the fundamental rights of people across China to peacefully protest the government’s draconian “zero Covid” restrictions and to call for freedom and ...

A bipartisan bill aimed at protecting Taiwan's undersea communication cables from Chinese "grey zone tactics" was introduced ...

On a quiet night last week, I received an unnerving message: My parents in Hong Kong had been taken away by the national-security police for questioning. Hours later, they were released — only ...

Though the issue continues to be disputed, the text of the First Amendment and the corresponding debates over the Bill of Rights suggest that the Framers understood assembly to encompass more than ...

Xu Zhiyong, a lawyer and dissident in China, was sentenced to 14 years in prison. He dictated a declaration about the China of his dreams.

This month marks 75 years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) the document that has become the blueprint for our international ...

Socially and politically, rankings in rule of law, freedom of expression, assembly and press, have all nosedived, and hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers have left for Western countries.