Tag: Repression

The Fallen by Louise Brangan review – an enraging accou...

The horrifying story of the Catholic-run institutions that incarcerated thousand...

Congolese president wins election by landslide

Denis Sassou Nguesso, who has been in power for more than four decades, secured ...

China’s rubber-stamp parliament set to approve ‘ethnic ...

New legislation will require schools to use Mandarin by default, taking priority...

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...