Tag: Repression

Labour minister asked spy chiefs to investigate journal...

Josh Simons’s aide wrongly suggested revelations were the result of a Russian hack

Myanmar military proxy expected to win landslide in wid...

Voting ends in month-long poll derided internationally as sham designed to cemen...

Iran kills protesters then forces families to say they ...

Mullahs inflate their own security forces’ death toll by adding those who hated ...

Trump promises ‘help is on its way’ and tells Iranians ...

US president gives clearest signal yet that he might take military action agains...

China pressing European countries to bar Taiwan politic...

Chinese officials are using a ‘highly specific’ interpretation of EU rules to su...

‘The streets are full of blood’: Iranian protests gathe...

Demonstrators recount experiences on the frontlines as protest movement rapidly ...

Trump ‘ready to help’ Iranian protesters as US weighs m...

Hundreds feared dead and hospitals overwhelmed as regime cracks down on nationwi...

The ayatollah is running out of options

Supreme leader’s support base is crumbling as protests engulf regime’s strongholds

Human rights activists urge ICC to act against Tanzania...

The activists allege that Tanzanian security forces deliberately killed between ...

Offline and silenced: Africa’s quiet rise of internet r...

Africa was hit by a record number of digital shutdowns in 2025 that stifled oppo...

Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov released from internal...

19 December 1986. Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (1921-1989) was a Soviet nuclear p...

Morocco accused of ‘horrific’ abuse of detained gen Z p...

As country prepares to host Africa Cup of Nations, families and rights groups te...

Assad family live in Russian luxury as Bashar ‘brushes ...

Family friend, sources in Russia and Syria, and leaked data help give rare insig...

East Timor still searches for justice, 50 years after I...

East Timor’s declaration of independence from Portugal in November 1975 was swif...