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Published in: Home: NewsGovernment reviewing its sanctions rules after letting Putin ally sue critic
Ministers are considering giving more political oversight to a process that allowed a warlord to sue a UK journalist
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Published in: Home: AnalysisThe government let a warlord sue our best journalist. Here’s why it matters
OLIVER BULLOUGH: Yevgeny Prigozhin shows just how much the legal system favours the wealthy over the truth
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Published in: Home: NewsLabour calls for probe into Treasury’s role in case against journalist
Rishi Sunak’s old department gave go-ahead for Yevgeny Prigozhin to circumvent sanctions and bring case in London
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Published in: Home: InvestigationRevealed: UK government helped sanctioned Putin ally sue British journalist
UK Treasury, then under Rishi Sunak’s control, let Yevgeny Prigozhin circumvent sanctions to target Eliot Higgins
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Published in: Home: NewsEU is urged: No deals with UK unless right to strike is protected
Europe’s unions make plea to MEPs as UK tries to resolve deadlock over Northern Ireland
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsMet Police won’t reveal abuse claims against its own sexual violence unit
Exclusive: The force said publishing allegations against sexual violence team would ‘breach their right to privacy’
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsRevealed: Met Police officers kept jobs after sending racist and sexist messages
Cops received only written warnings for sending and posting racist, sexist and offensive messages on social media
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Published in: Home: NewsComparing UK anti-strike law to Europe is ‘b*llocks’, say continental unions
European trade unionists say UK strike laws are already more restrictive than its neighbours
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Published in: oDR: FeatureUkrainian activist explains why he ‘stole’ Banksy near Kyiv
Serhiy Dovhiy faces up to 12 years in prison after removing a Banksy artwork from a wall in a town near Kyiv
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Published in: 50.50: NewsMurder of gay activist triggers trauma for Kenya’s LGBTIQ community
Violent death comes to LGBTIQ Kenyans too often, too early and in too many ways: hate crimes, suicide and domestic abuse.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisBrazilian democracy will emerge stronger from this day of infamy
Lula and his government must take a hard line against the Bolsonaristas’ coup plotters and their financial backers
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Published in: Home: NewsBereaved families ‘increasingly marginalised’ in Covid-19 inquiry
Bereaved Covid families believed they would be at the heart of the inquiry. Instead they say they are being silenced
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: AnalysisWill the UK finally tackle its dirty money problem in 2023?
New legislation is set to target corporate corruption and attempts to silence journalists through SLAPP lawsuits
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Published in: Freedom of Information: FeatureWhat we discovered via Freedom of Information this year
From secret government units to the failings of the Met Police, here’s what openDemocracy revealed via FOI in 2022
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureAnimated documentary film tells story of ‘Armenia’s Anne Frank’
‘Aurora’s Sunrise’ tells the forgotten true story of a teenage girl who survived the Armenian genocide of 1915
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Published in: 50.50: NewsUS bill equates healthcare for trans people with female genital mutilation
Health professionals speak out over ‘dangerous’ draft law amending FGM ban to criminalise gender-affirming treatment
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionHow we got Uganda to strike out a colonial law criminalising poor people
The offence of being ‘rogue and vagabond’ saw people detained for how they looked. Now it’s gone, but there’s more to do
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionI grew up in a war that has never ended
The war between Armenia and Azerbaijan changed my childhood, and now it’s changing my children’s lives
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Published in: Home: NewsMPs slam top ‘lawfare’ firm for keeping finances secret
Exclusive: Carter-Ruck has been accused of harassing journalists for wealthy clients. But its profits remain secret
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: Police may be assessing climate protesters for terrorism
Counter-terror police are being sent intelligence on activists who threaten businesses amid crackdown on protests