Maduro combined swaggering incompetence with ruthless repression. For much of his life he was in the shadow of Hugo Chavez, who upturned Venezuela with his brand of revolutionary socialism in the ...

Taiwan's National Security Council Secretary-General Joseph Wu on Saturday strongly criticised the Chinese Communist Party ...

A court in Pakistan’s capital has sentenced seven people to life imprisonment after convicting them of inciting violence.

The State Department is barring five Europeans it accuses of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or ...

The Chinese government once focused on political dissidents and exiled activists. Now, federal officials say, it is targeting ...

Autocrats have become more skilled in their intimidation and even harm of exiled dissidents and critics living abroad. Many countries where this repression is happening have weakened defenses ...

Venezuela is entering one of its most repressive periods in years, rights monitors say, as President Nicolás Maduro faces mounting isolation and an expanding US military presence in the Caribbean.

On Oct. 24, 1995, Duke University Press published my first book, The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education. Looking back 30 years at my book, it can be dispiriting ...

The growing criminalization of expressions of solidarity with Palestine constitutes a violation of fundamental freedoms, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) alleged in its new report, ...

Protesters, including Tibetans, Uyghurs, Hong Kongers and local residents, rallied in London in March to demonstrate against a proposed Chinese “super-embassy.” The targeted repression of human rights ...

This weekend Paul Thomas Anderson premiered his new film, One Battle After Another, loosely adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland. Revisiting the book five years ago, Peter Coviello ...

Criticism is being leveled at Cardinal Stephen Chow Sau-yan of Hong Kong after he reportedly insisted that the Chinese-administered territory is free of religious persecution and that Beijing wants ...