The government blocked a 21-year-old founding member of a young political party from an upcoming election
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Mexico’s official and incredibly user-unfriendly mobile voting app
Who makes it onto the ballot may have less to do with popularity than with Mexico’s mobile voting app
VIDEO: Can anti-corruption laws ever be sustainable?
The top current challenges to anti-corruption measures and innovative new approaches that appear to be working
Junta charges pro-democracy Thai activists protesting poll delay
The Thai junta has filed charges against 7 pro-democracy activists who led a 100-strong rally calling for elections
Navalny’s aides arrested for broadcasting anti-Putin protests
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Tuesday that his main spokespeople were arrested
Chinese human rights lawyer charged with ‘inciting subversion’
A prominent Chinese human rights attorney has been charged with “inciting subversion of state power”
Global rise in internet shutdowns aimed public protest
Governments around the world are increasingly shutting down internet access in an attempt to silence dissent
Hong Kong Democracy Protests Follow Candidate Exclusion
Pro-democracy groups took to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday to protest the government’s decision to disqualify a prominent activists from legislative elections in March. Agnes Chow, 21, was seeking to become Hong Kong’s youngest council member ever, contesting the seat of another “umbrella movement” activist, Nathan Law, 26, who was stripped of his […]
Thousands Take Part in Nationwide Russian ‘Voters Strike’
Several thousand people braved sub-zero temperatures in cities across Russia to protest lack of competition in election
Supreme Leader Planning New Iranian Internet Restrictions
Many Iranian officials have blamed social media for fomenting unrest that erupted in December