dissidents
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny ends 24-day hunger strike
April 23, 2021 | 9:30amAlexei Navalny said he would stop the strike after having been examined by non-prison doctors — something he called “a huge progress.” The 44-year-old Kremlin critic will continue to ask...
Navalny moved to prison hospital amid fears he could die at 'any minute'
April 19, 2021 | 7:25amRussia's penitentiary service said Monday that it was transferring ailing dissident Alexei Navalny, who is on the 20th day of a hunger strike, to a prison hospital -- amid grave...
Navalny supporters say jailed Russian dissident is near death
April 17, 2021 | 5:41pmSupporters of jailed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny say President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic is on the 18th day of a hunger strike in a Russian prison, and could die...
White House imposes sanctions on Russia for poisoning of Kremlin critic
March 2, 2021 | 10:08amThe Biden administration slapped sanctions on Russian officials and businesses on Tuesday, after the US intelligence community concluded that opposition leader Alexei Navalny was nearly killed by a nerve-agent poisoning attack carried...
Amnesty International: Hackers attacking Vietnam dissidents
February 24, 2021 | 11:05amBANGKOK — Amnesty International says it has found that a hacking group known as Ocean Lotus has been staging more spyware attacks on Vietnamese human rights activists in the latest...
Iranian journalist executed for inciting violence during protests
December 12, 2020 | 2:10pmRuhollah Zam's death sentence was upheld by Iran's Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Vladimir Putin will never help catch the poisoner — because it’s him
August 26, 2020 | 7:50pmForgive us for finding the international push for an investigation into the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny to be a bit... hopeless. Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest domestic...
Plane with comatose Russian dissident leaves for Germany
August 22, 2020 | 3:23amOMSK, Russia — A plane carrying a Russian dissident who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning left for a German hospital Saturday following much wrangling over Alexei Navalny’s...
Hong Kong media company's shares surge after founder's arrest
August 10, 2020 | 12:45pmHong Kong-based media firm Next Digital saw its stock price explode Monday after authorities arrested its dissident founder. Next Digital's shares surged as much as 344 percent as investors showed...
Civil dissent is the American answer to outrageous lockdown rules
May 20, 2020 | 7:56pmCiting the Bill of Rights and the “ideals of civil disobedience,” the owner of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, NJ, defied Gov. Phil Murphy’s orders by reopening on Monday. Cops “formally”...
Vladimir Bukovsky, hero of freedom
October 30, 2019 | 7:46pmIf we ever raise a memorial to heroes of the Cold War, one who will deserve a place near the center of this pantheon is Vladimir Bukovsky who died this...
Billionaire Chinese fugitive sues CNN host, Warner Media for calling him a 'spy'
August 2, 2019 | 6:50pmA billionaire Chinese fugitive has filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit against CNN host Erin Burnett and the network's parent company for calling him a spy during a segment for...
US arrests ex-Marine in connection to North Korea embassy raid in Spain
April 19, 2019 | 10:23pmWASHINGTON — U.S. authorities have arrested a former U.S. Marine who is a member of a group that allegedly raided the North Korean embassy in Madrid in February and stole...
Dissidents attempting to overthrow Kim Jong Un raided North Korea's embassy in Spain
March 15, 2019 | 4:24pmA secretive North Korean dissident group mounted a daring raid on one of the regime’s diplomatic compounds in Europe just days before the country's dictator, Kim Jong Un, held a...
Saudi Arabia's 'Jerry Seinfeld' and activist partner disappear
January 9, 2019 | 12:49pmHe was a stand-up comedian known as the “Jerry Seinfeld” of his homeland and she was a groundbreaking activist who pushed for women’s right to drive — but now nobody...
Al Gore returns and other notable comments
July 17, 2017 | 4:16pmFrom the right: The Resistance That Cried Wolf When the “rhetorical judo” known as “whataboutism” — citing similar bad acts by the opposition party — “is used to defend the...
Nobelist's death puts China in the record books next to Nazis
July 13, 2017 | 6:45pmFor the first time in eight decades, a Nobel Peace laureate has died in state captivity: Liver cancer took the life of Chinese democracy activist Liu Xiaobo at 61. He’d...
Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo dies at 61
July 13, 2017 | 9:43amChinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has died, the government of the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, where he was being treated for late-stage liver cancer, said on Thursday. The...
The dissident guests the pope failed to see
September 21, 2015 | 7:37pmPope Francis lands in the United States today for a whirlwind tour that brings him to the Big Apple Thursday evening. Hundreds of thousands — Catholic and otherwise — will...