Tara Mariwany of the European Legal Support Centre explained, “Nearly a third of people targeted are activists, 22 percent are students, and 13 percent are within the category of academics, writers ...

The truth is that Hong Kong today is a bizarre and cruel mix of George Orwell’s 1984 and Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. In the trial scene in Alice in Wonderland, the Queen demands “sentence ...

World leaders urged peace and a return to talks as the military strikes by the United States and Israel on Iran raised ...

Why Did National Populism Disrupt the Right? Fear, Loathing, and Succession in Pyongyang The Trump Administration’s Mixed Messages on Iran’s Nuclear Program Delusion Keeps the Iranian Threat Alive ...

Thousands of Venezuelans demonstrated on Thursday to demand the release of all remaining political prisoners and full freedoms a month after the overthrow of autocratic leader Nicolas Maduro. "We are ...

Feb. 10 (UPI) --Amnesty International reported what it describes as an escalation of arbitrary detentions, illegal surveillance and harassment targeting relatives of political prisoners and people ...

The U.S. government is using unaccountable federal forces to violently suppress dissent and reinforce its power through force and fear. This behavior is designed to make the people feel powerless and ...

The capture of Maduro and Flores is not celebrated publicly in Venezuela. In an environment of rising repression and regulations that penalize any gesture interpreted as support, most people choose ...

As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under siege, and dissent is ...

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Iran’s protest wave is no longer defined only by street clashes. It has entered a phase in which the state governs visibility itself. Days of near-total internet shutdown have reduced national ...

Democratic governments have spent the past decade debating how authoritarianism erodes freedom within the borders of a particular country. Far less attention has been paid to how authoritarianism now ...