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 IMAGE: Knelstrom Media. By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media LITHUANIA, Vilnius -- Recent mass demonstrations across Lithuania have highlighted a widening gap between state policy, media practice, and public consent. While international attention has remained limited, video footage circulating on social platforms shows sustained public gatherings expressing concern about what participants describe as a tightening of the relationship between government authority and information control. The protests have not coalesced around a single law or decree, but around a pattern of regulatory and communicative practices that critics say has narrowed the space for public debate.
The demonstrations come at a time of heightened regional security sensitivity, shaped by the ongoing war in Ukraine and by Lithuania's position on NATO's eastern flank. Government officials have framed recent measures as necessary responses to disinformation and hybrid threats. Protesters, by contrast, describe a system that increasingly equates divergence from official positions with risk, suspicion, or disloyalty. The resulting dispute is less about immediate policy outcomes than about the boundaries of permissible speech in a security-focused state.  Image by Knelstrom Media By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media GUINEA-BISSAU, Bissau -- The soldiers entered the capital as if stepping into a script already underway. On 26 November, with the electoral commission hours from announcing a presidential result that appeared poised to unseat the incumbent, the military intervened with the calm decisiveness of a caretaker changing locks on a property in dispute.
 Image by Martin Foskett By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media LONDON, ENGLAND -- The Metropolitan Police has announced it will no longer investigate or record so-called "non-crime hate incidents" — a quiet yet symbolic turn in Britain's long quarrel over the limits of speech and policing.
 Image by Martin Foskett By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media LONDON, ENGLAND: The Metropolitan Police have ended their investigation into writer and television creator Graham Linehan, after prosecutors found insufficient evidence to support any criminal charges over his social media posts.
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