Freedom and Repression

Another journalist’s arrest adds to growing list of detained media professionals in Azerbaijan, sparking outcry over press...

Georgian journalist jailed after protest, on hunger strike as EU and rights groups call for her immediate release.

Austin Tice, a former U.S. Marine turned journalist, vanished in 2012 while covering Syria’s civil war.

In a chilling example of Russia’s political repression, Yury Dmitriev has been sent to solitary confinement, known as SHIZO,...

Azerbaijan intensifies its crackdown on independent media, targeting journalists and activists under contentious charges.

A file discovered at General Intelligence Directorate headquarters details an operation to investigate SIRAJ, a Syrian...

Medical Properties Trust, the hospital real estate company that rented to Steward, had sued Viceroy Research LLC for making...

A Kyrgyz court upheld prison and probation sentences for four Temirov Live journalists accused of “calling for mass unrest,”...

The repressive Central Asian nation has never been an easy place to be a journalist. But a notorious crackdown on peaceful...

Kazakh Parliament passes legal changes to make personal lives of ex-presidents and their families a state secret

Azerbaijan escalates its clampdown on independent media, detaining journalists on disputable charges of currency smuggling....

Those who fled Russia to escape persecution for opposing President Vladimir Putin and his regime, may have avoided direct...