How China is choking (and co-opting) civil society
China is not content to control civil society within its own borders. Given the role of NGOs in advancing human rights globally and drawing attention to China’s human rights crimes,… Read more »
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Is Cuba’s Communist Party finally losing its grip?
The Cuban Communist Party’s days of unquestioned hegemony are over, a normally sympathetic commentator suggests. As Cuba’s authoritarian government clamps down on Internet access, a handful of U.S. lawmakers are… Read more »
Will Cuba’s ‘historic protests’ lead to lasting change?
The whereabouts of hundreds of arrested demonstrators in Cuba is unknown and others are being held incommunicado without charges nine days after nationwide demonstrations rocked the country, the Wall Street… Read more »
‘Brittle façade’ of Putin’s Russia limits authoritarian contagion?
Democracies have been bent out of shape by rising populism but autocrats are more likely to crack under pressure, as the brittle façade of Vladimir Putin’s Russia demonstrates, analyst Philip… Read more »
‘A World Safe for the Party’? CGTN ban a major blow to China’s sharp power
Britain’s media regulator on Thursday revoked a Chinese TV licence after it concluded that the Chinese Communist Party had ultimate editorial responsibility for the channel while Beijing lodged an official… Read more »
Civil society crackdown: Kremlin pushing for Belarusian-style grip on power
Russian rights activists on Thursday condemned draft legislation including a significant expansion of who can be labelled a “foreign agent” as a new clampdown on dissent, Agence France Presse reports…. Read more »
Belarus opposition ‘gaining momentum’: Taking ‘steps towards dual power’?
Factory workers, students and business owners in Belarus on Monday began a strike to demand that authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko resign after more than two months of continuing mass protests… Read more »
State retaliation against journalists ‘chills’ Egypt’s media
Democracy and human rights activists are expressing concern over the arrest of the brother of a prominent journalist, in the latest of a series of cases which have “chilled” Egypt’s… Read more »
Post-Pandemic World? ‘China’s Narrative Power Play’
Supposing that the world order can be placed somewhere in the spectrum between constitutionalized and authoritarian, China’s narrative power-play during the Covid outbreak might have moved the post-pandemic order closer… Read more »
Transition time: From democratic decay & breakdown to innovation & renewal?
There has never been a more appropriate and urgent occasion to celebrate International Democracy Day, say advocates and analysts. On 25 June the joint Letter to Defend Democracy was issued… Read more »