Democracy at Risk

Top Russian media outlets launched a rare boycott of parliament on Thursday after it dismissed claims from several journalists that...

The protracted state of emergency in Turkey has caused serious human rights abuses against "hundreds of thousands of people."

Prominent Angolan human rights activist and journalist Rafael Marques de Morais appeared in court over insulting a former attorney general.

The E.U. said reports that a firm hired by the Trump election campaign harvested the Facebook data of millions of...

Russians were voting Sunday in a presidential election set to hand Vladimir Putin a record fourth term, but the opposition...

High unemployment, the incessant flow of migrants and an incompetent government compelled Italians to vote for anti-elite and right-wing parties...

U.N. Special Rapporteur to Myanmar Yanghee Lee warned on Monday that the crackdown on Myanmar's Rohingya minority bears "the hallmarks...

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Thursday handed Brussels a detailed defense of Warsaw's controversial judicial reforms and warned that...

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to strip Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi of prestigious Elie Wiesel human...

While Vladimir Putin prepares to be re-elected, the Kremlin is frightening Russians with gays and communists into voting and arranging...

A global media watchdog warned E.U. leaders against undermining the security of journalists in the wake of the murder of...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny accused the authorities of wanting to put him behind bars during the upcoming presidential election.

Slovakian police launched a murder probe on Monday after a leading investigative journalist known for writing about high-profile tax fraud...

Up to 7,600 people gathered on Sunday in Moscow to mark three years since the murder of opposition politician Boris...

A Russian court on Thursday slapped a $1,700 fine on a Moscow cinema which screened British comedy "The Death of...

Bahraini activist Nabeel Rajab was sentenced to five more years behind bars over tweets critical of the Saudi-led intervention in...

An Egyptian court put leading government critic Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh and 15 others on terror lists at the request...

Moscow on Saturday dismissed accusations it had interfered in the U.S. election that brought President Donald J. Trump to power,...

Russia's media watchdog blocked the website of opposition leader Alexei Navalny after he posted a video alleging a deputy prime...

Egyptian police arrested on Wednesday a leading government critic and party leader Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh.