NSS chief executive Stephen Evans on why quashing a Quran-burning conviction is a vital win for free speech. Read More » ...

Highlighting that there is "no offence of blasphemy in our law", the Court added that whilst burning a Quran may be an act ...

Ahead of this week's appeal hearing, Stephen Evans says the NSS is supporting Hamit Coskun – not to defend his actions, but ...

Hamit Coskun was convicted of a religiously aggravated public order offence by Westminster Magistrates' Court in June after ...

Dr Antony Lempert says the findings of two recent medical papers critical of infant circumcision should prompt us to greater protect children from religious and cultural genital cutting. Two recently ...

Apostasy is punishable with death in nearly a dozen countries, according to a new report from Humanists International. The Freedom of Thought Report 2021 found that "apostasy" is punishable with death ...

To mark International Apostasy Day on 22 August, Dr Ben Jones reflects on his recent research into the experiences of ex-Muslims and their increasingly precarious position in Britain. His research was ...

One in seven local authorities has adopted a definition of 'Islamophobia' rejected by the government over free speech concerns, a new Civitas report has revealed. In 2018, the All-Party Parliamentary ...

The National Secular Society has called for separation of Church and state after census data revealed that less than half the population are Christian for the first time. According to data from the ...

Establishing a right not to be offended sounds the death knell for free expression, says Stephen Evans. Today, a 50-year-old man named Hamit Coskun was found guilty of a religiously aggravated public ...

The National Secular Society has raised concerns about a new charity whose trustee compared gay marriage to bestiality. David McLaughlin (pictured), minister and trustee of Carryduff Free Presbyterian ...

Human rights activist Ibtissam "Betty" Lachgar arrested following social media post deemed 'offensive to Islam' The National Secular Society is calling for the release of a woman arrested in Morocco ...