Venezuela’s top court has excluded the opposition coalition from the upcoming presidential election, a move that virtually ensures that unpopular leftist president Nicolas Maduro will win another term. Registration of parties and candidates to run in the election was slated to happen this weekend. The Supreme Court, however, told the national election council late Thursday […]
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Belarus blocks popular opposition website Charter 97
Former Soviet republic Belarus has blocked a top opposition website for spreading “illegal” content, the information ministry said Thursday. The website of Charter 97, founded by opposition politician Andrei Sannikov who ran against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko in 2010, went down on Wednesday evening. The information ministry said a decision was taken to “limit access” […]
Chinese #MeToo movement is testing the censors’ limits
Censors deleted hundreds of social media posts with the tag “Me too in China” and closed related topic forums
Namibian Opposition Parties Seek Coalition for 2019 Elections
Namibian opposition parties have different views on calls urging them to form a coalition grouping for the 2019 elections
Chinese police video of rights lawyer’s arrest raises questions
Chinese authorities appear to be mounting a smear campaign against a detained human rights lawyer by releasing a seemingly edited police video which shows him resisting arrest and then swinging at an officer, campaigners say. Yu Wensheng was seized Friday by roughly a dozen police, including a SWAT team, as he left his Beijing apartment […]
Brazil’s former President Lula in crisis following conviction
His hopes of a comeback appeared to be in tatters Wednesday after a court confirmed his conviction for corruption
Russia’s Navalny Takes Putin to European Rights Court
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has taken his feud with President Vladimir Putin to Europe’s highest rights court
Internet Access is Booming in World’s Poorest Countries
Hundreds of millions of people in the world’s poorest countries now have access to the Internet and mobile devices
People of South Sudan Suffer on Bottom of World Freedom Index
Once again, South Sudan is ranked among the least democratic countries in the world according to Freedom House
Indonesian environmental activist jailed for ‘spreading communism’
An Indonesian environmentalist has been sentenced to 10 months in prison under a tough anti-communism law