China’s ruling Communist Party appears to have postponed a key political meeting, in a move analysts said suggests that party leader Xi Jinping faces strong currents of dissent from within… Read more »
Two years after unprecedented anti-government protests rocked communist Cuba, the deep economic and social problems that drove people to challenge a government notoriously intolerant of dissent have only gotten worse,… Read more »
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ruled out holding a referendum on key national issues, a demand made by antiestablishment protesters, activists, and opposition figures, RFE/RL’S Golnaz Esfandiari writes:… Read more »
Georgia’s ruling party said on Thursday it was dropping a bill on “foreign agents” after two nights of violent protests against what opponents said was a Russian-inspired authoritarian shift that… Read more »
While Iran’s civil unrest has diminished, the economic hardship for millions of Iranians continues to deteriorate, The Financial Times reports: The rial has lost more than a third of its… Read more »
Many young Iranians, including teenagers, detained over their participation in anti-government protests, are at risk of execution and have been tortured, Amnesty International reports. The rights watchdog urged Tehran to… Read more »
Activists monitoring Iran’s protests are increasingly covering executions and arrests rather than street demonstrations, a sign of how momentum in the unrest has shifted to the state and its crackdown,… Read more »
A group of prominent exiled Iranian pro-opposition figures have issued a coordinated message predicting 2023 will be a year of “victory” with the regime shaken by protests, AFP reports. The… Read more »
Chinese protests against zero-COVID measures were unlikely to pose a direct threat to the regime, but they raise questions about how Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s second decade in power will… Read more »
Rising citizen anger about economic problems, especially surging inflation, drove antigovernment protests to a new high in 2022, according to data from the Carnegie Endowment’s Global Protest Tracker. The number… Read more »