The newest way to silence journalists, @JRezaian writes: Jail them during a pandemic https://t.co/gsEqH4Adom — Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) August 3, 2020 The same global health crisis that is helping the… Read more »
Some 60,000 people joined an opposition rally in Belarus, where presidential candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya said she was “tired of being afraid” and wanted to bring about peaceful change in the… Read more »
My column this week: Peru is heading towards a dangerous new populism https://t.co/m3cMa5pb7z — Michael Reid (@michaelreid52) July 23, 2020 In her 2017 book, Democracy: Stories From the Long… Read more »
Police in Belarus have arbitrarily arrested journalists, bloggers, and political activists ahead of the August 9, 2020 presidential election and pressed charges against two potential candidates, Human Rights Watch said… Read more »
Postponed elections. Sidelined courts. A persecuted opposition. As the coronavirus pandemic tears through Latin America and the Caribbean, killing more than 180,000 and destroying the livelihoods of tens of millions… Read more »
The rise of autocrats today indicates that charismatic leaders, especially those who maintain that achieving national glory trumps boring institutions like laws, are finding a receptive audience, a new book… Read more »
A new call for UK to do more to stand up for democracy around around the world. More should be done by all democracies in solidarity with those fighting… Read more »
Fetishizing the labels we give to acts of horror skews our responses to other atrocities, says a prominent expert. In recent days the horrendous treatment of the Uighur community by… Read more »
“Were we wrong to have thought that MBS could bring progress to Saudi Arabia?” Ash’s @masoudtarek writes about the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia in a new review essay… Read more »
I’m looking forward to taking part in this event on July 28, at @fiu_sipa: “China’s Sharp Power: Beijing’s Growing Repression in Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Around the World” https://t.co/NfxD2y9KZ5… Read more »