Asia

After IStories and OCCRP exposed ties between Telegram’s backend providers and Russian intelligence services, the company...

A relentless crackdown over the past 18 months has eradicated any semblance of independent media from authoritarian...

Kyrgyzstan’s ex-leader Almazbek Atambayev was sentenced in absentia for corruption and organizing 2019 riots, amid ongoing...

Ten human rights organizations released a joint statement calling on Kyrgyz authorities to end the crackdown on independent...

Outcry over lavish wealth, corruption, and repression brings down reformist Prime Minister after vote loss.

Sheikh Hasina, now in exile in India, faces charges over a deadly 2024 crackdown that killed more than 1,400 protesters,...

Kyrgyz authorities have detained two former employees of the independent media outlet Kloop, placing them in pre-trial...

Eduard Lintner, a former parliamentarian with the CSU party, later said he didn’t think the payments he received were...

Kyrgyz authorities have detained six current and former employees of independent media outlet Kloop as part of a widening...

Kyrgyz authorities have detained four current and former members of the investigative outlet Kloop, in a continued crackdown...

Indonesia’s anti-corruption agency is investigating a $3.3 million extortion network inside the Ministry of Manpower, where...

Experts say banks are ill-equipped to deal with complex money laundering networks set up by traffickers.