Publication Apr 23, 2018 Shutdown of Pakistani TV network hints at army’s bid for control (The Guardian) – When Pakistan’s largest and by far its most popular television network, Geo, was pushed off the airwaves in at least 80% of the country last month, many…
Publication Apr 23, 2018 New electronic system to speed up Iraqi election results: elections chief (Reuters) – A new electronic system will deliver the results of Iraq’s upcoming national election within hours of polls closing, the country’s chief electoral officer said, a marked improvement from…
Publication Apr 17, 2018 Popular Tanzanian singer arrested in latest internet crackdown (Reuters) – Tanzania briefly detained two musicians, including one of the country’s most popular singers, after they posted video clips deemed obscene by the authorities, in the latest crackdown on…
Publication Apr 17, 2018 HONG KONG: Benny Tai’s Topsy-turvy Taiwan Journey He’s back! Benny Tai is making waves again. No sooner had the Occupy protest effect finally faded than Professor Benny Tai Yiu-ting (戴耀廷) sparked another important political controversy. This time…
Publication Apr 17, 2018 A Hopeful Moment for Uzbekistan (The New York Times) – It is a measure of how repressive Uzbekistan was under its first post-Soviet president, Islam Karimov, that the first, tentative steps by his successor to…
Publication Apr 16, 2018 First They Came for the Rohingya In recent months, international media coverage of Myanmar has focused on the plight of the Rohingya people in the west of the country. And for good reason: Since August 2017,…
Publication Apr 12, 2018 Two more activists jailed in Vietnam amid widening dissent crackdown HANOI (Reuters) – Courts in Vietnam handed prison sentences to two activists on Thursday, as the communist-ruled government widens a crackdown on dissent. A court in the northcentral province of…
Publication Apr 11, 2018 Sudan’s president orders release of all political prisoners (Associated Press) – Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir ordered the immediate release of all political prisoners on Tuesday as part of national dialogue efforts, the state news agency said. […] The…
Publication Apr 6, 2018 Malaysian Leader Jump-Starts Elections, and Stacks the Odds (The New York Times) – Malaysia’s leader has said he will dissolve Parliament on Saturday, paving the way for the most contentious general elections in the country since it gained…
Publication Apr 5, 2018 Sierra Leone’s Opposition Leader Is Sworn In as President (The New York Times) –A former military commander and coup leader who later went to graduate school in the United States and Britain was declared the winner of Sierra Leone’s…
Publication Apr 5, 2018 Vietnam jails prominent human rights lawyer, five other activists HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnamese human rights lawyer and activist Nguyen Van Dai was jailed for 15 years on Thursday, his wife said, along with five other activists who were given…
Publication Apr 5, 2018 Philippines’ Duterte launched a foul-mouthed attack on UN human rights chief (Daily Times) – President Rodrigo Duterte has launched a foul-mouthed attack on the UN human rights chief, calling him “empty-headed” in a row over international criticism of the Philippine leader’s deadly drug war. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein,…
Publication Apr 4, 2018 China human rights: Wife marches for ‘vanished’ husband The wife of a detained Chinese lawyer has begun a march of more than 100km (62 miles) to try to find answers about his fate. Li Wenzu is walking from…
Publication Apr 4, 2018 Angola charges son of former dictator dos Santos with fraud (CNBC) – The son of Angola’s ex-president, José Filomeno dos Santos, has been charged with fraud relating to a $500 million transaction out of an account belonging to the central…
Publication Apr 3, 2018 Boko Haram kills 15, wounds 83 in attack in northern Nigeria (CBS News) – Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremists attacked two villages on the outskirts of the northeastern city of Maiduguri late Sunday, killing at least 15 people, the military said Monday….
Publication Apr 2, 2018 As Authoritarianism Spreads, Uzbekistan Goes the Other Way (The New York Times)– Unraveling a police state is never easy, and just how fraught the process can be has been playing out in a basement cell in Uzbekistan, a…
Publication Apr 2, 2018 Egypt’s Sisi wins 97 percent in election with no real opposition (Reuters)–Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been re-elected with 97 percent of votes, the same proportion that the former military commander secured four years ago for his first term but…
Publication Mar 30, 2018 Blackmail, prejudice and persecution: gay rights in Nigeria At a private party, held late at night in a small Lagos hotel far from any main road, men find solace in being openly gay. It is one of the…
Publication Mar 29, 2018 Tanzania opposition leader charged for ‘inciting hatred’ (News24) – The charges of inciting hatred and rebellion are linked to a speech Mbowe gave during the protest in which he said President John Magufuli would not last long…
Publication Mar 29, 2018 The Disappeared – China’s Global Kidnapping Campaign Before he disappeared from his luxury apartment at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong on Jan. 27, 2017, Xiao Jianhua, a Chinese-Canadian billionaire, favored female bodyguards. Why, exactly, was…
