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The political uprisings that have swept the Arab world over the past year represent the most significant challenge to authoritarian rule since the collapse of Soviet communism, according to Freedom in the World 2012, the latest edition of Freedom House’s annual global survey.
Susan Corke, director for Eurasia programs at Freedom House, testified before the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe about Kazakhstan’s growing instability.
Christopher Walker, Freedom House vice president for strategy and analysis, spoke on a panel January 23 at Columbia University about the methods used by authoritarian states to cling to power.
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Freedom in the World 2012: The Arab Uprisings and Their Global Repercussions
Kazakhstan: As Stable as Its Government Claims?
Modern Methods of Authoritarian Rule
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Freedom House is deeply concerned by the indictment of photographer and activist Park Jung-geun on January 31 for violating South Korea’s National Security Law and sharing a Twitter posting from the North Korean government with his followers, in what he says was an attempt at satire.
Freedom House condemns the attack on Philip Kostenko, an activist working with the Anti-Discrimination Center “Memorial” in Saint Petersburg, Russia, who has been involved in recent demonstrations advocating for fair elections in Russia.
Freedom House presented the findings of Freedom in the World 2012 with a panel discussion on global trends and key challenges for human rights and democracy. See images on our Facebook page.
Since its foundation in 1923, the Republic of Turkey has endured three military coups against democratically elected governments, in 1960, 1971, and 1980. A fourth military intervention—in the form of an ultimatum—brought down a coalition government led by the Islamist Refah Partisi (Welfare Party) in 1997. Since 2002, however, the Adelet ve Kalkına Partisi (Justice and Development Party, or AKP) has consolidated power, offering a platform of political conservatism with an Islamic bent and neoliberal economic development that has garnered unprecedented popular support.
Foreign Policy Magazine by Sherif Mansour
Egypt's military-run government says I'm a fugitive from the law. I say it's time American taxpayers stop funding repression.
