Freedom and Repression

Georgian prosecutors have launched a criminal probe into five civil society groups, freezing their bank accounts and...

Azerbaijan has intensified its crackdown on civil society, arresting NGO figures and targeting exiled activists and...

The bloggers rack up millions of views, promote Russia as a haven for conservatives, glorify the war in Ukraine — and never...

A young Ukrainian journalist believed in truth and justice. She was 27 when she died in a Russian prison while trying to...

A Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked businessman, identified as one of Australia’s top criminal targets, was involved in...

As the U.S. withdraws support for independent journalism worldwide, Russia and China could try to fill the vacuum.

Georgian authorities have violently cracked down on protests over the past three months, raising fears that data extraction...

Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court upheld prison sentences for two journalists accused of inciting mass unrest, a move condemned by...

While the reporter waits in prison for the Supreme Court to review her appeal, she is receiving threats from her cellmate....

I wrote a story that was cited by a whistleblower complaint that led to Donald Trump’s first impeachment. Now, it’s being...

Kyrgyzstan invited, then abruptly canceled—later calling it a postponement—a visit from the EU's Human Rights Subcommittee...

The Russian bard, facing 20 years in prison, died after jumping from his 10th-floor window—raising new questions about the...