Browsing: Political Prisoners

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The day Kea Sokun was arrested in Cambodia, four men in plainclothes showed up at his…

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A Saudi princess, a critic of her country’s government who was jailed nearly three years ago after…

NAIROBI, Kenya —Ethiopia’s government said Friday it would release several prominent political prisoners, including members of the rebel Tigray People’s…

CAIRO — An Egyptian court sentenced three prominent human rights figures to several years in prison on Monday on charges…

When more than 100 soldiers and police officers surrounded his three-story apartment building and sealed off his neighborhood in Myanmar…

BEIJING — As President Biden prepares to host a “summit for democracy” this week, China has counterattacked with an improbable…

HONG KONG — A Hong Kong court on Tuesday sentenced a student activist to three years and seven months in…

MOSCOW — In the days after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the upheaval and uncertainty that gripped Russia were…

NAIROBI, Kenya — After four weeks under house arrest, Sudan’s ousted prime minister was reinstated on Sunday after he signed…