Aleksandra Dukhanina was just 18 years old when she was arrested at the Bolotnaya Square protests. She talks to RFE/RL’s Russian Service about spending two years under house arrest.
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Nazeeha Saeed, who was imprisoned and tortured during the pro-democracy protests in 2011, discusses the state of journalism in Bahrain and her struggle for justice in this edition of The Freedom Chat.
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Tarik Günersel writes about the justifiable outcry and protests over the Turkish government’s reaction to the mining disaster in Soma.
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American artist Mike Flugennock illustrates a well-known symbol of solidarity in this curated cartoon. Over the last week, protesters flooded Rome’s streets in reaction to sweeping economic reforms recommended by Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
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In this week’s column, author Tarik Gunersel writes about literary and social media crackdowns as well as the recent challenges to religious freedom under Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdoğan.
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This week Israel Centeno writes about the protests sweeping Venezuela, Maduro’s reaction, and how Chávez’s presidency sowed the seeds for the current environment of hate and violence.
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Cuban columnist Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo discusses the premiere of Oliver Stone’s “tribute documentary” on the late ‘Supreme Commander’ Hugo Chávez amid the protests and violence impacting Venezuela today.
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