Democracy Now!Eman al-Guwaifly, Riyadh Bureau, January 14, 2013There is a new chapter being written in Saudi Arabia. Sit-ins have never been a daily occurrence before, neither creative protests. The arrest of Turki al-Hamad is a good moment to review the concepts be...
Al Jazeera, January 14, 2013Thousands of protesters, led by Pakistani Sufi cleric Muhammad Tahirul Qadri, march toward Islamabad on Monday to demand key reforms ahead of elections. Activists carried the green and white national flag of Pakistan and a m...
Jonathan Cook, Dissident Voice, January 14, 2013A group of 250 ordinary Palestinians set up a tent encampment that they intended to convert into a new Palestinian village called Bab al-Shams, or Gate of the Sun. The activists chose to mirror the tactic...
Ellen Barry and Andrew Roth, NY Times, January 13, 2013Thousands of Russians marched Sunday to condemn the Parliament's move to ban the adoption of Russian children by American families, carrying posters showing the faces of lawmakers stamped with the ...
Hafsa Halawa, Egypt Independent, January 8, 2013Hafsa Halawa, one of 43 defendants on trial for working in what the Egyptian government deemed "illegal civil society organizations," speaks about why she did not flee Egypt after being arrested. "You can...
Jonah M. Kessel and Chris Buckley, NY Times, January 8, 2013Protests over censorship at one of China's most liberal newspapers descended into ideological confrontation on Tuesday, pitting advocates of free speech against supporters of Communist Party c...
Tom Stevenson, Al Jazeera, January 3, 2013Western Sahara has been ruled by Morocco since 1975 when, after Franco's death, the Spanish left and allowed Morocco and Mauritania to enter. Despite the extensive security apparatus, the Sahrawi have been hold...
J.J. Gould, The Atlantic, December 19, 2012Today there is a global slave population of between 20 million and 30 million people. The same interests responsible for human trafficking and forced labor are also responsible for fostering other types of cri...
Peter Pomerantsev, openDemocracy, December 28, 2012Throughout the Putin heyday, Russian political discourse was invented, manipulated and owned by a handful of Kremlin spin doctors. Over the last year, that changed. Though they failed to make real poli...
Olga Khazan, Washington Post, January 3, 2013Ahmed Humaidan, an award-winning photojournalist that was arrested on December 29, is believed to have been targeted for his images of Bahraini protesters. He is the latest case in what has become a relentle...
