Hong Kong's High Court on Tuesday sentenced 45 leading democrats to jail terms of up to 10 years in what critics say is a ...

The absence of dissent reduces democracy to a mere contest for power and competition between political parties and special ...

I used to think that the notion of a liberal fascism was absurd, a figment of a paranoid political imagination. Now I am not so sure. More than one person has been arrested in London for holding up a ...

In a statement in Srinagar, APHC Spokesman Abdul Rashid Minhas expressed grave concern over the ongoing repression against ...

As reported by the editorial team of "Novaya Gazeta," under the pretext of a fire safety inspection, the Gulag History Museum ...

A UN human rights expert on Friday strongly condemned the jailing of a 68-year-old paediatrician in Moscow, describing the ...

The 1979 takeover of Iran by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Revolutionary Guards, once seen by some as a hope for change, has become a nightmare for millions. Decades of repression—mass ...

Over 1,500 climate and human rights defenders have been murdered since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, and there appears to be no let up as the latest death toll stands at 2,100, with ...

Sexual repression is a broad definition that generally includes negative views about sex. This article addresses contributing ...

The government in Minsk has initiated a wave of arrests in the lead-up to January’s presidential election, according to a Belarusian human rights group.

FOR more than half a century, Bangladesh has grappled with the promise of democracy, caught in a cycle of progress and ...