Unsealed records show the Trump administration targeted Khalil, Ozturk, and Mahdawi for lawful, protected speech — and knew a First Amendment fight was coming.
Senior United Kingdom government officials and members of the European Parliament have threatened to ban the social media platform X in response to a proliferation of sexualized images on the platform.
After student pushback, Catholic University reversed its Reddit ban — proving campus website censorship is futile, and chilling research rights matter.
FIRE calls on Trinity to end its investigation into the matter and remove any existing policy prohibiting “political activism within academic settings.”
Ninety one percent of undergraduate students believe that words can be violence, according to a new poll by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and College Pulse.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott labeled the Council on American-Islamic Relations a foreign terrorist organization and prohibited it from purchasing land in the state.
China-related censorship ripples worldwide, from UK academia to NYC film screens — plus fresh crackdowns, bold resistance, and rare wins for free expression.
FIRE reached out to the over 600 academics listed in the Scholars Under Fire database who were targeted between 2020 and 2024, of whom 209 completed our survey.
