Freedom and Repression

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...

Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet’s reporting had challenged authorities from Minsk to Moscow and Kyiv. In a murder that...

An Iranian-born businessman sentenced in absentia for spreading "propaganda" against the country’s Islamic...

Russian investigative journalist Nikolay Andruschenko died in a St. Petersburg hospital Wednesday after being brutally...

Miroslava Breach, 58, a Mexican journalist who specialized in organized crime and corruption, was shot eight times in her...