Repressive countries have more success in co-opting support to silence overseas critics with governments they trade with.
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Can social media posts sustain Russia’s endangered dissident cultures?
Chinese novelist Murong Xuecun infiltrated Wuhan in April 2020 to gather its citizens’ stories from the first days of coronavirus: from the doctor who first warned of a new disease, to a taxi driver.
Many of Russia’s creative class are speaking out against the war in Ukraine and experiencing financial repercussions. As a result, many are leaving the country
A provocative short film about a woman and her dog, Bestia highlights the impunity enjoyed by Chile’s military and politicians
There’s not much the world can do to stop authoritarian rulers from persecuting their political opponents, as shown by the standoff over Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who is ill and imprisoned.
As the protests escalate, Modi’s grip on India’s internet communications remains as tight as ever.
Banning the Chinese-owned social media platforms raises free speech concerns and could worsen the US-China trade war.
Khashoggi’s ruthless killing is just one example of a broader trend including the widespread detention, kidnapping, murder and extradition of dissidents and their relatives.
Musine Kokalari was imprisoned and tortured by the communist regime in Albania in 1946 for standing up for free speech.
As Solzhenitsyn saw it, simple truths are always a threat to totalitarianism.
The sacking of Turkish education staff speaks to a broader agenda of control through removing educated dissident voices.
How do Afrikaners find a place in post-apartheid South Africa? A look back at the dissidents who took on the apartheid state over decades offers some examples.
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Emeritus Reader in History, University of Kent
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Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Reader in Law, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds Beckett University
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Professor, Sociology, University of the Western Cape, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor in Political Science and International Relations, Durham University
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Reader in the Theory and Politics of Development, SOAS, University of London
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Professor of Anthropology, Area Studies and Russian, United States Naval Academy
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Visiting Fellow, Department of Political & Social Change, Centre on China in the World, Australian National University
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Texas at Dallas
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