In seven years as a political prisoner in Venezuela, activist Leopoldo López kept asking one question: Who holds the keys to freedom? Now the leader of an alliance of dissidents and exiles from more t...

Research shows tens of millions of people are being forced to use platform that amounts to ‘backdoor’ on their device

A continuously updated research tracker documenting how governments across sub-Saharan Africa use financial mechanisms to restrict civil society, independent media, and human rights defenders.

2027 Tech Policy Press fellowship applications are due on September 24, 2026.

Azerbaijani authorities are refusing to allow a jailed journalist with a serious breathing disorder to see a specialist or to undergo diagnostic scans, her family and lawyer say, the latest sign of the deteriorating conditions for the country’s imprisoned journalists.

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Africans don’t want military rule. They want generals to rid them of bad leaders, and then return to the barracks. But once in power, military leaders often have other ideas.

The internet made it easier to evade traditional censorship, but Philipp Lutscher writes that cyberattacks are a cheap and deniable authoritarian countermove.

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Coordination around an incomplete definition of safety risks scaling the world's blind spots rather than reducing them, writes Liz Orembo.

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