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LATEST ISSUE: VOLUME 53.01 SPRING 2024
The long reach: How authoritarian countries are silencing critics abroad
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The death of North Korea’s propaganda chief marks the end of an era
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Burkina Faso has chosen the tool of the tyrant
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Toomaj Salehi: A voice of defiance
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Why critics like Jay Rayner have a role in battling self-censorship
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Turkey’s elections: “No rule of law anymore”
The country’s human rights landscape has disintegrated since Erdogan took over in 2003
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Don’t give up on Myanmar
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Censoring Roald Dahl is not the answer, just a problem
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Hong Kong’s travesty of a show trial begins
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Why we need Banned Books Week more than ever
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Turkey and Thailand: Two elections, different outcomes
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The daily risks taken by Afghanistan’s female journalists
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The shock waves from Turkey’s Twitter restriction
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Sir Salman Rushdie wins Freedom to Publish Award
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New play gives a voice to the forgotten Crimean Tatars
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Argument for urgent intervention in Jimmy Lai case laid bare in new report
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Defying the Taliban – A stark reminder of the collapse of Afghan women’s rights
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Bunker Cabaret: From the bomb shelters of Kyiv to Somerset House
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Seeing Auschwitz is a timely reminder of the importance of documenting atrocities
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Yulia Tsvetkova’s hunger strike: “I have reached a dead end”
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New report on protecting the media against Slapps
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