Country Report: Belarus August 2026
By Sophia Khan Belarus opposition supporters lay flowers near the Pushkinskaya metro station where Alexander Taraikovsky, a 34-year-old protester, died on Aug. 10, 2020, during a protest in Minsk. (Sergei Gapon/AFP via Getty Images) Although Belarus was a founding republic of the Soviet Union, the 1988 discovery of mass grave sites from Stalin-era targeting prompted calls for independence. Belarus declared independence on August 25, 1991, after the dissolution of the Soviet U
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Aug 17
Turkey's Kurds Say Gov't Obstructing Quake Relief
Turkey's Kurdish opposition says government obstructing quake relief efforts - by Andrew Wilks for Al Monitor This photograph taken on...
Al-Monitor
Feb 28, 2023
New Lao PM inherits multiple poison chalices
ASIA TIMES By DAVID HUTT JANUARY 2, 2023 Sonexay Siphandone hails from a powerful political clan and has ties to China but his success in...
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Jan 4, 2023
Country Report: Haiti
Kathryn Baron | Genocide Watch Haiti is in a cascading political, economic, and social crisis. It is a nation heavily dependent on...
Genocide Watch
Apr 26, 2022
Hong Kong: Trial Over Tiananmen Vigil Begins
Associated Press | The Guardian Mon 1 Nov 2021, 02.29 EDT Eight pro-democracy activists including the prominent businessman had been...
Associated Press 1
Nov 4, 2021
Nicaragua Crackdown Extends to Business Executives
Ismael Lopez and Anthony Esposito | Reuters October 21, 2021, 6:22 PM EDT As Nicaragua government crackdown continues, police arrest...
Reuters
Oct 22, 2021
Hong Kong Seeks Legislation To Crush Dissent
By Helen Davidson | The Guardian Thursday, 30 Sep 2021, 04.48 EDT Article 23, shelved in 2003, may target foreign organisations and bans...
The Guardian
Oct 4, 2021
Nicaragua: Presidential Campaign With No Rivals
AFP News Agency September 25, 2021, 3:44 AM Nicaragua's presidential election campaign officially kicks off on Saturday with incumbent...
AFP (Agence France-Press)
Sep 27, 2021
Nicaragua: Trumped-Up Charges Against Critics
Human Rights Watch September 20, 2021, 12:00AM EDT Hazardous Detention Conditions, No Due Process, Arbitrary Prosecutions. Lesbia Alfaro,...
Human Rights Watch
Sep 24, 2021
Fear Grips Nicaragua in Veer Toward Dictatorship
Yubelka Mendoza, Anatoly Kurmanaev, & Alfonso Flores Bermúdez | The New York Times Sept. 5, 2021 A crackdown on opposition by President...
New York Times 1
Sep 13, 2021
Ortega's crackdown stirs exodus
Daina Beth Solomon and Alvaro Murillo | Reuters September 2, 2021,10:29 AM EDT Nicaraguans, who left their country due to the political...
Reuters
Sep 3, 2021
China’s Crackdown on Hong Kong
Claire Moses and Vivian Wang | The New York Times In the year since China passed a sweeping national security law for Hong Kong, the...
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Jun 23, 2021
