Freedom and Repression

A Kazakh journalist known to be a stout government critic went on trial Monday for alleged money laundering,...

The Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta said Wednesday that it will try to appeal a court ruling that orders the deportation of...

A special report published Wednesday urges the Ukrainian government to step up its commitment to investigating the July 2016...

Mexican officials said Monday they found at the bottom of a ravine the charred remains of journalist Salvador Adame, who was...

The Mexican government has targeted journalists, lawyers, and anti-corruption activists using spyware intended for...

Authorities in Azerbaijan and Georgia are facing mounting criticism for their possible role in the apparent kidnapping of...

Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist, Afgan Mukhtarli,was kidnappedMondayevening inTbilisi, Georgia,and...

The chief editor of a newspaper in the Siberian city of Minusinsk was shot dead in a killing that...

Tajikistan has launched an "unrelenting assault" on lawyers by harassing, prosecuting and imprisoning those who...

Javier Valdez Cardenas, a well-respected Mexican journalist who covered drug trafficking and organized crime, was murdered...

Ukrainian authorities questionedon Mondaya former security service agent whom journalists identified as a possible witness...

A Kazakh journalist and civic activist was stabbed in the stomach on an overnight trainSundaybefore he was due to meet with...