dissidents

This address is listed on an official police website back in China as an “Overseas Police Service Center,” but the locale appears abandoned.

China has a police network that stretches across some 30 countries, NGO says

November 21, 2022Global Politics

The Madrid-based nongovernmental organization Safeguard Defenders says that China has an extended police network in dozens of countries around the world, with the goal of coercing criminal suspects to return home to China. Beijing doesn’t deny they exist, but says they are legitimate and used for legal purposes.

Protesters yell from behind the roadblock they erected as they face off with security forces near the University Politecnica de Nicaragua, UPOLI, in Managua, Nicaragua

‘I have to speak out’: Nicaraguan ambassador resigns, denounces govt as dictatorship

March 30, 2022Leaders

Pope Francis and Cuba's President Raul Castro confer in Havana on Sunday.

Cuban artists ask why their government won’t let them create

September 21, 2015Arts

Demonstrators listen as a student leader gives a speech during a protest led by students at Yangon University in Myanmar July 7, 2015

Meet the Burmese activists who risked their lives for the right to carry a USB drive

July 16, 2015Justice

Alexander Litvinenko in the hospital shortly before his death in 2006.

Moscow gets formal blame for the 2006 killing of a dissident in London

January 27, 2015Justice