Tag Archives: democracy

A former pro-democracy legislator in Hong Kong says people are “distraught” and “disillusioned” that some fear the city has lost important freedoms. The widespread pro-democracy protests that rocked Hong Kong in 2019 …

Americans today are much better informed about Bangladesh than they were when Henry Kissinger described it (not without reason) as a “basket case” in 1971, the year it achieved independence. That label …

A Pro-Biden group, operating with the blessing of the White House, plans to raise unlimited funds, and grant anonymity to donors, as it prepares to promote and protect the president’s agenda from …

China’s legislature on Thursday passed a resolution called “Patriots Rule Hong Kong,” in a move to reform the city’s elections. Because it is important: The action effectively gives the Chinese Communist Party …

Police rush towards the protesters to disperse a rally that is being held against the military coup in Yangon on March 3, 2021. STR | AFP | fake images The United States …

Hundreds of people demonstrated in front of a Hong Kong court on Monday after 47 pro-democracy activists were charged with a national security crackdown, arrests leading to the conviction of Secretary of …

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – Myanmar’s ambassador to the UN strongly opposed the military coup in his country and called for the “strongest possible action by the international community” to immediately restore democracy, …

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – Whether taken from their homes in the middle of the night or from the streets during protests, hundreds of people have been arrested in the weeks after Myanmar’s …

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – Whether taken from their homes in the middle of the night or from the streets during protests, hundreds of people have been arrested in the weeks after Myanmar’s …

A few days after a military coup in Myanmar, the army’s top general shut down the Internet as pro-democracy protesters were taken to the streets. On Monday, the biggest rally against the …