crushing dissent in the maldives

The Maldives has a long history of using criminal defamation laws to stifle dissent, but threats to the media and opposition critics increased after the August 2016 enactment of the Anti-Defamation and Freedom of Expression Act. The law sets heavy fines for content or speech that “contradicts a..

state power and the execution of the rosenbergs

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were the first only American civilians to be executed for espionage, electrocuted at Sing Sing Prison Ossining, NY, 62 years ago, on June 19, 1953.  The couple was, stoic and tight-lipped to the end..   They went to their deaths with composure that astonished the witnesses... ..

iraq: secret detention, no recourse

The International Commission on Missing Persons, estimates that the number of missing people Iraq could range from 250,000 to one million people, with International Committee of Red Cross stating that Iraq has the number of missing people in the world.. ..

monthly review

Political Islam is not anti-imperialist, even if its militants think otherwise! ... It is, thus, possible to imagine a political Islam that is anti-imperialist, though regressive on the social plane. ..

they’re only sleeping

In 1992, the Uzbek government had begun to use the term “Wahhabi” for anyone who was perceived to be an adherent of radical Islam or who held anti-government sentiments as part of his Islamic beliefs. ..

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