The app best known for kids sharing video clips of themselves singing and dancing has become a powerful tool for activists speaking out against repression in Iran.
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The Russian government, under President Vladimir Putin, has stepped up repression at home and aggression abroad in an effort to consolidate power within the country and on the world stage.
The Indonesian government is criticised for using the pandemic as an excuse to repress.
There’s not much the world can do to stop authoritarian rulers from persecuting their political opponents, as shown by the standoff over Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who is ill and imprisoned.
And there’s not too much the rest of the world can do to stop them.
Nine months into the pandemic, Indonesia has seen serious threats to civil liberties, involving not only privacy but also freedom of expression and of the press in the digital realm.
Academic freedom is under assault around the world. Academics and students are being killed, injured, detained and disappeared in a pattern of disturbing increases in state repression.
Today’s autocrats rarely use brute force to wrest control. A human rights and international law scholar details the modern authoritarian’s latest methods to grab and hold power.
A decade on, the power of remembrance is key to Tamil culture.
Almost one-third of countries around the world are authoritarian regimes with the trappings of democracy. Their bad behavior poses a threat to real democracies, as the United States recently learned.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s grip on power remains strong but pockets of dissent are emerging from digital platforms.
New! Mega sports events wash your government’s tarnished reputation whiter-than-white.
In Tanzania today, political space has shrunk to the point where protests are suppressed before they emerge
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Executive Director, University of Dayton Human Rights Center, University of Dayton
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Professor of Media Industries, University of Nottingham
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Associate professor in Mass Media, Digital Politics, and Democracy, Universitas Diponegoro
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Ph.D. candidate in American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
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Secretary General of ALMI and Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights, Universitas Gadjah Mada
