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Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina once joined her rivals in a fight to restore democracy but her long reign in power has been marked by arrests of opposition leaders, crackdowns on free speech and suppression of dissent. Hasina, 76, won a fourth straight term and fifth overall in power ...

Authoritarian campaigns to clamp down on dissent and control the media have driven scores of journalists from countries like Afghanistan, Belarus, Hong Kong, Myanmar, Nicaragua, and Russia into exile. But what is increasingly different today is that the repression of a free press does not stop at the border.Authoritarian ...

Opposition in country isn’t up against just BJP but ‘authoritarian’ government too, says Mehbooba Srinagar, Aug 9: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said opposition parties in the country were not up against just the BJP but an “authoritarian” government that is “weaponising” state institutions to ensure an opposition-free ...

Srinagar; PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said opposition parties in the country were not up against just the BJP but an “authoritarian” government that is “weaponising” state institutions to ensure an opposition-free India.“The predicament Nitish Kumar & opposition parties find themselves in isn’t just because they are facing ...

File Photo SRINAGAR, Aug 9: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said opposition parties in the country were not up against just the BJP but an “authoritarian” government that is “weaponising” state institutions to ensure an opposition-free India.”The predicament Nitish Kumar & opposition parties find themselves in isn’t just ...

Protests sweeping Kazakhstan will be closely watched by Iran and Turkey, and Russia may intervene. China also will want to monitor closely the developments in Kazakhstan because it affects China’s policies in Central Asia.In the wake of the US leaving Afghanistan, there is a sense that the US role ...

Turkey’s leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered ambassadors from 10 leading democracies to be declared “persona non grata,” cementing Ankara’s shift toward authoritarianism and alliance with countries that oppose the US and the West.The attack was made by Ankara after the US and other countries had critiqued Turkey for continuing ...

Having lost their leader in Washington, Donald Trump-supporting Republicans appear to have settled on a new authoritarianism-curious leader to admire: Hungary’s anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT, anti-free press Viktor Orbán. From a full week of programming by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson from Budapest to a Conservative Political Action Conference event in Hungary ...

Washington , October 14 (ANI): The United States Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, on Tuesday, slammed the United Nations for electing "authoritarian regimes" like China, Russia and Cuba into the UN Human Rights Council adding that the US' decision to withdraw from the council has been "validated". Pompeo in ...

In the wake of the announcement that Israel and the United Arab Emirates are normalizing relations one line of critique of the agreement has been that Israel and the UAE are authoritarian regimes or that Israel prefers to only sign agreements with monarchies and dictatorships in the region. Historically ...