It has been five years since the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and not much has changed. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is believed to have ordered his brutal killing ...

Rally "for a free Russia without repression and despotism" Moscow, June 10 2018. Credit: Don Simon via Wikimedia Commons. CC0. From Bull Connor’s dogs and fire hoses attacking U.S. civil rights ...

FOR activists, journalists, and dissidents fleeing their home countries, safety is increasingly hard to find. They are targeted for their work even when on foreign soil. This insidious reach of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Financial repression” was common in the four decades after the second world war and is essential to ...

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, an information war is raging alongside the physical fighting. Russia’s attempts to spread disinformation have not yet found great success in the West. Within ...

The abrupt cancellation of an independent Chinese film festival in New York reveals how Beijing and its proxies increasingly ...

On July 7, a U.S. grand jury indicted five men for crimes connected to a Chinese government plot aimed at silencing dissidents living in the United States. While three of the men were originally ...

A wave of repression by President Nicolás Maduro’s administration in Venezuela has paralyzed opposition candidates in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential elections. On January 26, Venezuela’s Supreme ...

Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko denied Monday that state repression exists in Belarus, while answering questions from local and foreign media. He also invited members of the public to ask ...