Between 2018 and February 2025, Vietnamese courts had convicted and sentenced at least 124 people to harsh prison terms under article 331.
On, Sunday March 5, a dense line of protesters stretched across two of Warsaw's massive blocks starting from the Palace of Culture and Science,...
For decades, Human Rights Watch has documented governments reaching outside their borders to silence or deter dissent by committing human...
Modern authoritarianism has succeeded, where previous totalitarian systems failed, due to new strategies of repression, the exploitation of open societies,...
The government continued to enforce repressive laws and policies that restricted the right to freedom of expression and other human rights.
Early twentieth-century skeptics were rightly suspicious of plutocrats deciding how to improve the human condition and then paying to translate their...
It was a formidable year not only for human rights suppression and wartime atrocities but also for selective government outrage and transactional diplomacy.
Online content manipulation contributed to a seventh consecutive year of overall decline in internet freedom, along with a rise in disruptions to mobile...
Our research found that mobility controls are a ubiquitous tool of global authoritarianism, and that many governments are expanding their use of these tactics.
Today's authoritarian playbook is a process that happens piecemeal and is hard to distinguish from normal political jockeying.
