“…disinformation is not only corrosive to open societies, which depend on collective trust in facts, but also takes a subtler toll on the perpetrator…”
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
Uganda: Drop Charges Against 19 Homeless Youth
HRW has asked Uganda’s Public Prosecutions Director to release of homeless youth arrested on grounds of breaking COVID-19 lockdown laws.
How to resist the authoritarian surge
There is still a “sort of love of liberalism all over the world, even in places like Russia and China…It is obviously there in Hong Kong”, expert.
As coronavirus threatens legitimacy, China targets victims and critics
The rest of the world has asked China for coronavirus compensation. While this is happening, China is clamping down on voices at home seeking answers.
Falling for China’s Fake Covid-19 News Was Dangerous and Preventable
Coronavirus: “everyone – the US government, the WHO, journalists, public health officials, and others – should have known better than to trust Beijing’s claims”.
COVID-19’s regime-type fallacy: Autocrats also feeling strain
Autocrats have transformed the coronavirus pandemic into an opportunity to further restrict freedoms. But they also feel the strain.
How China exploits the pandemic it helped cause
China has been blamed for lighting up the coronavirus fire. A new perspective examines how it is now exploiting it to its own advantage.
‘He Found One of Stalin’s Mass Graves. Now He’s in Jail’
Amateur historian, Yuri Dmitriev, finally found Stalin’s mass graves. He is now in jail for paedophilia, a charge often used to silence voices in Russia.
‘Beginning of the end’ for Hong Kong? Two systems ‘dead as a Dodo’
Hong Kong pro-democracy activists are looking to seize opportunities to counter crack-down, Beijing a plan to end the “one country, two systems” framework.
Autocratic assertion meets democratic dereliction
During coronavirus, autocrats and would be ones are finding opportunities for tyranny, insisting that this is to protect public health, Economist.