Press Release Jun 4, 2025 Remembering the Tiananmen Square massacre Today marks the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, when the Chinese regime unleashed tanks and armed troops to crush a peaceful student movement demanding freedom and democracy. The brutal crackdown shocked the world and continues to cast a long shadow over ChinaтАЩs appalling human rights record.
Press Release Apr 25, 2025 VenezuelaтАЩs Maduro Continues to Use Tren de Aragua for Transnational Repression, Kidnapping, Assassination The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condemns Venezuelan dictator Nicol├бs Maduro for using the Tren de Aragua criminal network to target and eliminate dissidents beyond VenezuelaтАЩs borders. New evidence from a Chilean prosecutorтАЩs investigation has confirmed that the February 2024 abduction and assassination of former Venezuelan army lieutenant Ronald Ojeda in Chile was a politically motivated murder, ordered by MaduroтАЩs regime and executed by members of Tren de Aragua.
Blog Post Nov 8, 2024 Election Watch Tunisia: TunisiaтАЩs Democratic Dismantling Tunisian President Kais Saied won yet another election on Oct. 6, securing an overwhelming 90.7% of the vote, up from 73% since his previous win in 2019. His win, however, is anything but surprising, considering that heтАЩs dismantled nearly all forms of democratic checks to his power.
Blog Post Sep 6, 2024 A History of Sports & Dictators, Part 3: Post-WWII Soft Power Long before the inception of the Olympic Games in Ancient Greece, sports have been used to distract the masses, test foreign policies, thaw diplomatic tensions, and broadcast political and social messaging.
Blog Post Aug 14, 2024 Election Watch: Bangladesh Took One More Step Toward Authoritarianism When the people of Bangladesh went to the polls on Jan. 7, they did so knowing the outcome was already predetermined: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the ruling Awami League won a fourth consecutive term, pushing the country further toward authoritarianism.
Blog Post Aug 9, 2024 A History of Sports & Dictators, Part 2: The Rise of Fascism Long before the inception of the Olympic Games in Ancient Greece, sports have been used to distract the masses, test foreign policies, thaw diplomatic tensions, and broadcast political and social messaging.
Blog Post Jul 31, 2024 Election Watch: Modi Secures Third Term Amid Electoral Irregularities India has recently concluded the worldтАЩs largest electoral exercise, with some 640 million voters casting their ballots over seven weeks beginning on April 19.
Blog Post Jul 21, 2023 The Road To Nowhere: CambodiaтАЩs Bogus Election Cambodians are counting down to SundayтАЩs general election. Prime Minister Hun Sen, one of the worldтАЩs longest-serving dictators тАФ 38 years and counting тАФ is aiming to тАЬwinтАЭ yet another rigged election.
Blog Post May 9, 2024 Thailand Election: A New Beginning or Political D├йj├а Vu? ThailandтАЩs general elections are set to be held on May 14. Up to 70 political parties, both big and small, are running candidates in these elections hoping to win seats in the parliament.
Blog Post Mar 27, 2024 Beyond Borders: ChinaтАЩs Grip on Global Media Controlling the public narrative is the Chinese Communist PartyтАЩs (CCP) modus operandi. It relies on narrative and revisionist storytelling to coerce its subjects into ideological adherence.
Blog Post Mar 8, 2024 Election Watch: PakistanтАЩs Contentious Elections On Thursday, Feb. 8, Pakistan, a country of 250 million people тАФ the fifth most populous globally тАФ hit the polls for its 12th general election. It came amid growing political and economic instability and a security crisis.
Blog Post Feb 1, 2024 BurmaтАЩs Third Coup Anniversary Three years ago today, the Burmese military junta, led by Min Aung Hlaing, seized power from the democratically elected government in a coup.
Srdja Popovi─З Expert in nonviolent resistance and founder of the Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS)
