Vietnam is adding pressure on foreign internet firms to keep data on local users and be more accessible to the country’s authorities as the country tightens control over online dissent. A bill that the Southeast Asian country’s Ministry of Public Security offered to legislators this month would require foreign internet services to open representative offices […]
Dictatorships articles on Democracy Chronicles
Here you will find our latest news on dictatorships around the world. These articles attempt to shine a light on the ridiculous, bizarre, and inhumane ramifications that result from organizing human societies without consent of the humans. The worst abuses of dictatorships will be covered here as well as their most outrageous behavior. Also see our section on the Political Dissidents who struggle against dictatorships across the world.
“From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.”
Thomas Paine
Vote Putin, Win an iPhone: Bizarre Russian Voter Turnout Schemes
The Kremlin is worried as it tries to balance between keeping tight control over campaigning and avoiding voter apathy
Peru’s ex-dictator Fujimori released after controversial pardon
Peru’s ex-president Alberto Fujimori was wheeled out of a Lima hospital late Thursday a free man following a controversial pardon by President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. A frail-looking Fujimori, 79, held up a hand to wave to supporters as aides rolled him out the main entrance of Lima’s Centenario Clinic in a wheelchair, before he was […]
The oil rich and grindingly poor Equatorial Guinea dictatorship
Equatorial Guinea is ruled by Africa’s longest-serving president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who took power by overthrowing his uncle and has since weathered several coup attempts himself. After claims of a new attempt late December, here is some background about the small nation tainted by claims of corruption and rights abuses. – Same leader for decades […]
Zimbabwe’s November coup that confused the world
Afraid of VP Mnangagwa’s rising popularity, Mugabe fired the former as Vice President in early November 2016. This led to dramatic events of 13-24 November 2017 that saw Mugabe resigning.
Africa’s longest-serving dictator says war prepared against him
The president of Equatorial Guinea said a war is being organised against his regime, days after a government official warned of a “destabilisation attempt”. A “war” is being prepared “because they say I have spent a lot of time in power,” President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said Saturday, without saying who he was referring to. On […]
How the Iranian Regime is Responding to Protests
Finally, Iran has acknowledged the series of protests sweeping through the country in the past few days
Vietnam’s 10,000-strong cyber censorship army criticized
The deployment of 10,000 cyber warriors to fight online dissent in Vietnam adds a grim “new dimension” to controls on free speech in the Communist country, a rights group has said. Vietnam routinely jails its critics and closely monitors activists on social media, which is not banned unlike in neighbouring China. A top Vietnamese general […]
‘Fake News’ Label Now Widely Used by Global Dictatorships
Some of the world’s worst violators of media freedom are using Trump’s “fake news” refrain to justify press restrictions
On Alberto Fujimori: Peru’s pardoned ex-dictator
Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year sentence for corruption and rights abuses, has been pardoned