Bahar al-Assad is using the natural disaster that has killed thousands to launder his reputation internationally while ordinary Syrians suffer
The silence after the earthquake in northwestern Syria is deafening
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The shock waves from Turkey’s Twitter restriction
Criticism of the Turkish government in the wake of this week’s deadly earthquakes led to the blocking of the social media platform
CCP undermining the right to protest in the birthplace of European democracy
Activists in Greece protesting China’s hosting of the Winter Olympics in 2022 were arrested
Iran protests: “Mahsa” Amini does not exist
The name of the woman murdered by Iran’s “morality police” was Jina Amini but Kurds in the country cannot use their real names, says British-Kurdish writer and organiser Elif Sarican
“I have gone through hell”: assault, starvation, discrimination
An Afghan journalist says her escape from the Taliban to Pakistan has only gone to show why the UK government must do more
Hong Kong’s travesty of a show trial begins
The Hong Kong 47 are now on trial. There is nothing free or fair about this
Iran’s erased women remembered
A new exhibition by Soheila Sokhanvari celebrates Iranian freedom and womanhood
Two years on: The dwindling freedoms following Myanmar’s military coup
On the second anniversary of the coup, democracy in the country is slipping further away. A Burmese-led organisation and an exiled journalist describe the landscape
Brazil is falling into an abyss
Attacks on free expression in the country are the worst since the dictatorship ended in 1985, writes a journalist from Brazil
Those who refuse to despair
Today, 27 January, is the birthday of our former colleague Andrei Aliaksandrau, another one spent in jail thanks to his opposition to the regime of dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka in Belarus
New play gives a voice to the forgotten Crimean Tatars
The powerful work tells the stories of indigenous Tatar dissidents and their families on the Russian-occupied peninsula
We need to end SLAPPs now
The UK’s legal structure continues to let oligarchs bully reporters
