This briefer focuses on surveillance and other digital threats to free expression in India, examining the proliferation of illegal surveillance in recent years and examples of the suppression of online free expression.

Firearms pose an urgent threat to the exercise of First Amendment rights of free expression and peaceful assembly in the United States. Armed individuals at protests can discourage people from voicing their beliefs and petitioning the government for change. ICNL works with US partners to strengthen people’s right to assemble peacefully, unimpeded by the presence of guns

Please join us to discuss what INSPIRES consortium members, partners, and USAID have learned about the unexpected connections that make up the ecosystem of government and civil society behaviors.

This ICNL briefer covering the problems with anti-rioting laws including allowing the government to bring charges with extreme penalties against protesters, politicians, and other Americans engaged in protected First Amendment activity.

Across the country, governors and lawmakers are using various tools to limit, punish, and deter demonstrations at state capitols.