Reports that Muslim Brotherhood members accused of detaining and torturing opposition activists are to face trial are highlighting the Islamist group’s intolerance of dissent and ambivalent attitude towards political violence.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Administrative Court will make a ruling on …
Last December, U.N. member states at the World Conference on International Telecommunications approved a treaty that may open the door to an international organization regulating the Internet. The question of oversight of the Internet is increasingly important. More …
“The daughter of a well-known Cuban dissident who died in a car wreck last year stepped up calls on Thursday for an independent, international investigation of the case after hearing from the man who was driving the vehicle that another …
“After more than two weeks of sustained attack from China’s biggest state media outlets, Apple finally genuflected this week and issued a humble apology for its “perceived” arrogance and disregard for Chinese customers,” says a leading observer.
“The lesson was …
The failure of young democracies in so many regions of the world has had enormous consequences, writes Joshua Kurlantzick. Most obviously, the renewed strength of authoritarian rule means that billions of people continue to live under repressive or pseudo-democratic …
“Cuba’s best-known dissident, journalist Yoani Sanchez, received a hero’s welcome from the Cuban-American exile community in Miami, her latest stop in an 80-day tour of more than a dozen countries,” Reuters reports:
Unlike other dissidents, who have been received …
With the detention of five pro-democracy activists, including a prominent blogger, for protests against the ruling Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s Islamist-led government is escalating tensions with its opposition critics, observers suggest.
The arrests follow a clear threat to the National …
“Ten years after the ‘Black Spring’ arrest of 75 Cuban dissidents, some in the opposition perceive signs of greater openness while others see a regime that is merely changing tactics to improve its image,” AFP reports:“The …
Celebrated dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez plans to establish an independent digital newspaper upon her return to Cuba.
She expected to be subject to surveillance and harassment back in Cuba, but expressed the hope that her celebrity, which she called “a …
“Angry mourners clashed with riot police at a funeral procession in northern Vietnam at the weekend….in a rare mass protest at alleged impunity for the country’s Communist elite,” AFP reports:
Sunday’s unrest was triggered by the death of Nguyen …