As the stand-off between the West and Russia intensifies, new information reveals that armed groups in Crimea abducted two political activists, held them for 11 days in secret detention along with several other detainees, ill-treated both, and badly tortured one of them.
At the same time, Russia’s unprecedented, nationwide campaign of inspecting nongovernmental organizations and identifying certain advocacy groups as “foreign agents” continues unabated.
The Ethiopian government is using sophisticated surveillance technology made in China and Europe to bolster its widespread telecom surveillance of opposition activists and journalists both in Ethiopia and abroad, a new report says.
In Egypt, 682 members of the Muslim Brotherhood went on trial today, just one day after more than 500 of the group’s supporters were sentenced to death -- even though the court didn't even summon each defendant.
Violence in the Central African Republic continues, international efforts to address the crisis remain woefully inadequate and the crisis remains dire. Buddhist women in Burma may be stripped of their right to marry a man outside the Buddhist faith if a news discriminatory legislation is adopted.
