Tundu Lissu, Tanzania’s leading opposition figure, returned home on Wednesday after more than two years in exile, one of the strongest indications yet that efforts by the East African nation’s… Read more »
Less than 9% of people in Poland believe that the country’s courts function better now than they did before the current government came to power in 2015, while over half… Read more »
A Turkish court has convicted Şebnem Korur Fincancı, the president of the Turkish Medical Association and a renowned human rights activist, of disseminating “terrorist propaganda” in a trial seen by… Read more »
Has China reached an authoritarian tipping point? A new series from Newsweek uncovers what China’s Communist Party is doing overseas to achieve its stated goal of superpower status and global… Read more »
If democratic electorates agree to go on absorbing the costs of supporting Ukraine, it will be because they have been persuaded, not just that the Ukrainian cause is just but… 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 »
It’s been another record-breaking year for the number of journalists jailed for practicing their profession. The Committee to Protect Journalists’ annual prison census has found that 363 reporters were deprived… Read more »
The president of the European Parliament has warned that “European democracy is under attack”, following allegations that Qatar bribed EU officials to win influence, the BBC reports: Roberta Metsola said… 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 »
In a rare show of defiance, crowds in China gathered for the third night as protests against Covid restrictions spread to Beijing, Shanghai and other cities. People held blank sheets… Read more »