Freedom of expression

Adalah: Tel Aviv University, which holds itself up as a platform for the free exchange of ideas and opinions, is failing to uphold the fundamental freedoms and silencing the voices of its...

Adalah demands a criminal investigation against the police officers who unlawfully raided the branch and confiscated the flags.

Adalah is challenging ministerial ban on external providers of school programs that refuse to declare they recognize the Jewish character of the state, and/or those who commemorate the Palestinian...

The petition, filed on behalf of the Al-Tufula Center, the Arab Mayors’ Committee, and the Follow-up Committee on Arab Education demands the cancellation of clauses requiring that educational...

Adalah: The JNF, together with the Israel Lands Authority, plants forests in the Naqab to displace Bedouins, viewed as ‘trespassers’, from their lands. This is racial discrimination, par...

The Jerusalem Magistrates Court rejected the prosecution’s request to further extend the detention of Mohammad Kana’neh, one of the leaders of the Abnaa el-Balad movement, until the end of trial.

As Adalah team gathers testimonies and evidence in preparation for formal complaint to Police Investigations Department, grim picture emerges of police’s suspected illegal orders, excessive use...

Following hearing of Adalah-ACRI petition against Israel’s Cyber Unit, Supreme Court also calls on Israel to present similar censorship mechanisms in other countries and clarify their respective...

University guards question, disperse Arab students after members of far-right Jewish group disrupt Arab students' authorized activity.

Digital Activism workshop for high school and university-age youth, and training for new Arab lawyers and journalists held in Haifa.

Broadcast ban violated freedom of expression and religion, press freedom; Israel postponed decision on station's requests to broadcast for more than year until Adalah filed petition.

Israeli human rights organizations stand in solidarity with Human Rights Watch after Israel bars its entry; what is democracy without free speech, robust public debate and open criticism?

Police pressured school principals to prevent students from protesting; students received Whatsapp messages falsely indicating protest was illegal, warning of clashes with officers.

Adalah: The most important thing for us is that the agreement did not impose any prohibition or conditioning of the creative content produced by the theater.

Trainings provided introduction to theoretical explanations and practical aspects of defending freedom of expression rights, as part of EU-funded project.

Adalah: This bill resembles the laws of history's criminal regimes, and seeks not only to humiliate human rights groups but also to incite against them.

Adalah: "The aim of the continued detention of Mr. Khateeb is to intimidate and deeply frighten Palestinian society from using social media to express support for their own people."

Bennett's decision was made in the context of his attempt to silence views deemed "inappropriate" by the majority.

The court cancelled a minor provision of the law, which allowed exceptional higher compensation without the need to prove damages, but left the rest of the law intact.

In December, Adalah will be representing at several important hearings in Israeli courts concerning the rights Palestinian