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Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera, detained for trying to stage an open-mic show in Havana, says a government crackdown may actually have helped her...
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A Cuban crackdown on dissident activists caused a new rift with the United States, the first diplomatic scuffle since this month’s historic announcement of...
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Cuban authorities detained or kept at home several dissidents, including a performance artist who organized an open-mic session for Cubans to speak out about...
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The editor-in-chief of Russia’s top opposition magazine, The New Times, has been accused of disobeying traffic police and faces up to 15 days in...
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Police in Azerbaijan have detained a dozen journalists working for US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty amid an ongoing crackdown on the outlet that has...
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China has jailed six members of a fringe religious group known as “Almighty God” for up to five years for promoting their faith, state-media...
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An Egyptian appeals court Saturday reduced jail sentences given to eight men over a gay wedding video that went viral on the Internet to...
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Prosecutors in Azerbaijan on Friday raided the offices of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s local service, according to its director, who condemned the move as...
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Turkey has the freest press in the world, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday, brushing off accusations that media freedoms were being eroded under...
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Turkey’s leaders are committed to EU membership and still aim to play in the “first division” of Europe despite a bitter row over a...