Dong Guangping, who has resettled in Canada, recounts his perilous escape from China to South Korea.

To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans, Princeton University Press, 816 pages, August 2024 Professor Benjamin Nathans thinks ...

An example of how journalism sometimes works: a team investigates one story, one narrative, and if they keep an open mind and dig into the facts, they discover the real story is entirely different.

Ilya Yashin, a prominent opposition politician, said he appreciated his freedom, but told his jailers he did not want it if it meant going into exile. By Valerie Hopkins Reporting from Bonn, Germany.

During a recent rant on his HBO show "Real Time," political comedian Bill Maher bluntly addressed MAGA Republicans who think he might be ready to come over to their side. Maher (who met with President ...

Nearly every major pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong was sentenced last month to a multiyear prison term. The 45 defendants had helped organize a makeshift primary in 2020 to determine who among ...

At the start of the Nevada Desert Experience’s Sacred Peace Walk, a 60-mile journey each Spring from Las Vegas to the nuclear test site, witnessing against drone warfare, for indigenous land rights as ...

Cuban dissident José Daniel Ferrer has arrived in the United States after being freed from prison in Cuba, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday. Ferrer was released and allowed to depart for ...

Jamal Khashoggi was a well-known Saudi journalist and activist whose criticism of the kingdom’s royal family, specifically Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, marked him for death. Khashoggi was ...

Hundreds more Cuban dissidents are expected to be released in the coming days in a deal with President Biden, but even a top beneficiary is balking. By Frances Robles Reporting from Florida José ...