The UK meeds to to revise legal and policing measures that risk citizens’ right of peaceful assembly and association, a United Nations expert says.

The House of Lords has voted 150 to 54 to amend Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 and therefore to end the criminalisation of insults.

A man facing trial for publishing videos critical of religions should be immediately released by the Egyptian authorities, Amnesty says.

Conservative Scottish Christians are calling for a boycott of a talk by well-known atheist Richard Dawkins, scheduled for a book festival in late October.