Our government spent almost a decade chasing a professor they thought was a spy. The case raises questions about our ability to pursue real perpetrators of China’s crimes. On May 18, viewers of 60 ...

People hold posters picturing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and lightened candles during a gathering outside the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, on October 25, 2018. People hold posters ...

A group of researchers recently compiled as much information as they could on Chinese efforts to render Uyghurs back to China — they’ve only exposed the tip of the iceberg. Credit: Illustration by ...

Repression can be thought of as "motivated forgetting:" the active but unconscious forgetting of unacceptable drives, emotions, ideas, or memories. Unsurprisingly, repression is often confused with ...

In the latest episode of Expert Opinions, a podcast from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, Masha Udensiva-Brenner interviews Freedom House researchers Nate Schenkkan and Isabel Linzer ...

Today, when it comes to political repression in Egypt, Hosni Mubarak is a human rights activist compared to Abdel Fattah ...

In 2022, along with the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian authorities commenced internal repression on an unprecedented scale. There were more than 21,000 arrests and at least 370 defendants ...

The "anchazadehs" are the children of senior regime officials who benefit from political power, corruption and wealth derived ...

In a new example of its agenda of adjustment and repression, The National Government confirmed that it will seek to impose the debate on the Juvenile Penal Law in the next extraordinary sessions ...

Cambodian authorities are harassing Cambodians living in Japan who are publicly critical of Cambodia’s government and also harassing their relatives in Cambodia. The Cambodian government’s expansion ...