Rights experts decry ‘black hole’ for media freedoms in Belarus
UN independent human rights experts have called for the immediate release of a jailed social media activist in Belarus amid what they...
Genocide Watch
Jun 8, 2021
Pakistani intelligence accused of torture in crackdown on dissent
By Secunder Kermani BBC News, Islamabad Walking to the barber's one evening, Shafiq Ahmed began to suspect he was being followed. The...
BBC News
Jun 4, 2021
The 'kindness and propaganda' of a life in Belarus
By Manish Pandey Published 1 June 2021 Opposition supporters say last year's election in Belarus was rigged | Getty Images It's been...
BBC News
Jun 2, 2021
Syria election Fraud: Bashar Assad "wins" 4th term
Assad has won another seven-year term with a vote share of 95.1%. The rather predictable official results are unlikely to quell criticism...
!a Deutsche Welle 1
May 28, 2021
Syrian Election Shows The Extent Of Assad's Power
Written by: Ruth Sherlock Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife, Asma, vote at a polling station during the presidential election...
NPR 1
May 26, 2021
AP Investigation: Myanmar's Junta Using Bodies to Terrorize
Two black pickups speed down an empty city street in Myanmar before coming to a sudden stop. Security forces standing in the back of the...
Associated Press 1
May 26, 2021
3 Reasons Why The Arrest Of A Journalist By Belarus Is Troubling
Belarus police detain journalist Roman Protasevich center, in Minsk, Belarus March 26, 2017. Protasevich was arrested after an airliner...
NPR 1
May 25, 2021
Is There a responsibility to protect Myanmar?
Democracy activists are invoking a controversial international norm to demand outside intervention. democracy demonstrations in Myanmar...
Slate
May 24, 2021
Dismissed public servants reveal extent of Turkey’s purge
Former public servants have revealed on Twitter the extent of Turkey’s post-coup purge by sharing “then-and-now photographs” of them in...
Stockholm Center for Freedom
May 21, 2021
USCIRF Condemns Iran’s Crackdown on Baha’i Community
For Immediate Release Washington, D.C. – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today condemned the...
Genocide Watch
May 21, 2021
Country Report: Hong Kong
By Faith Marie Stahl When the United Kingdom agreed to return Hong Kong to China in 1984, the two countries settled on a “one country,...
Genocide Watch
May 12, 2021
Mixed signals on rights: Pakistan
Reema Omer | DAWN IT has been more than 10 years since Pakistan ratified the ICCPR and the Convention against Torture, and even longer...
Genocide Watch
May 6, 2021
