Democracy at Risk

A Mexican reporter was shot dead in the violence-plagued northeastern state of Tamaulipas -- the 12th journalist killed so far...

A British journalist and a Brazilian indigenous expert have gone missing in a remote region of the Amazon rainforest after...

A prominent Turkish anti-femicide campaign group went on trial on Wednesday accused of activity against law and morals, with several...

The Catholic archbishop in Jerusalem strongly criticized Israel's "police invasion" last week of a Christian hospital ahead of the funeral...

The US envoy to the UN said the killing of Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh as she covered...

Iran has arrested almost 40 teachers nationwide before and since May 1 protests, Human Watch Rights has said, calling for...

A Russian court ordered the pre-trial detention of a Siberian news editor for alleging that 11 riot police members had...

Human Rights Watch slammed a meeting between Australia's ambassador to Myanmar and the military junta chief, saying it was "lending...

A Russian journalist for the investigative news outlet The Insider was killed when Russian troops shelled a neighborhood in the...

Russian lawmakers approved legislation imposing jail terms of up to 15 years for publishing false information about Russia's actions abroad.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has revealed the "shaking foundation" of democracy, Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei said as he unveiled what...

Human Rights Watch said it was "highly unlikely" that 81 men Saudi Arabia executed in a single day received fair...

The UN voiced alarm at Facebook's decision to temporarily ease its policy on violent speech after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine,...

Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelensky urged his...

A British television crew was ambushed outside Kyiv earlier this week, leaving one journalist wounded, their employer Sky News said.

Journalists from Hong Kong's CitizenNews decried plummeting press freedoms as they shut down, saying they no longer felt safe to...

Refugee aid groups in Greece, some with years of experience in the field, say trying to get onto the government's...

Egypt has sentenced Alaa Abdel Fattah, a leading figure in the 2011 revolution, to five years in jail, with two others...

Thousands of people protested Sunday in El Salvador's capital against corruption and what they see as a drift towards authoritarianism,...

The European Union condemned the Myanmar ruling junta's jailing of ousted leader Aug San Suu Kyi as "politically motivated" and...