Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on repression and includes content relating to human rights violations, restriction of citizen and civil freedoms and rights of political activists, dissidents and the general population, surveillance, police brutality, imprisonment, acts of violence terror such as summary executions and torture.
We write from the barricades of Jantar Mantar, where the Government of India has deployed armed forces against citizens protesting mass disenfranchisement…
Víctor Barahona’s body bears the impact of Nayib Bukele’s regime. Barahona is a community journalist who works in radio and television. He was arrested…
On October 9, only hours after the announcement of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay, a former judge…
Political scientists have a fairly dry checklist for what makes a regime oppressive: it silences dissent, it turns state power against its…
GAZA, 9 October 2026 – One year after the Gaza ceasefire agreement was reached, more than 100 humanitarian, human rights, and other…
After setting up robust rapid-response groups to resist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) abductions and stopping the buying up of warehouses to…
PEN America released a report on Monday documenting nearly 12,000 book bans involving more than 7,300 individual titles in US schools during…
On September 15th, fifteen-year-old Mohammad Abdul Zinati was walking home from school in Gaza city with friends and stopped in a shop. …
Five years after the U.S. withdrew its troops from Afghanistan and the Taliban returned to power, the group is now asking for…
To the untrained eye, the 11th Ward along the southernmost border of Minneapolis is a sleepy corner of the city, tucked away…
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