Akin Gump, the fourth largest lobbying firm in the country by revenue, is being paid to advocate for a polysilicon ...

Six new governments—those of Afghanistan, Benin, Georgia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe—were identified for the first time as ...

At least 54 countries are known to carry out this kind of rights violation since 2014. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

Dozens of my family members, including my father, have disappeared into China’s system of mass incarceration over the past ...

Freedom House recorded 126 new incidents of physical, direct transnational repression during the year, bringing the total ...

The rise of transnational repression—ranging from digital threats, family intimidation, and spyware to abductions, assassinations, illegal deportations, and Interpol abuse—has demonstrated that ...

Democratic governments have spent the past decade debating how authoritarianism erodes freedom within the borders of a particular country. Far less attention has been paid to how authoritarianism now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, was praised as a "champion of peace." ...

One September morning in Washington, D.C., a car exploded, killing a former Chilean ambassador to the United States, Orlando Letelier, and his assistant Ronni Moffitt. It was no accident. Operatives ...

Today on “Post Reports,” a look at what has happened to Iranians in the year since massive protests swept the country. We hear from family members impacted by the government’s harsh crackdown and how ...

Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated and dismembered in the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul five years ago this month. That was an explosive example of “transnational ...