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Collage by Arzu Geybullayeva. Photos courtesy of OC Media. Used with permission. Thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets to protest the controversial foreign agent bill tabled last year but re-introduced by the ruling Georgian Dream Party on April 3, 2024. Pundits say the Georgian Dream Party is steadily derailing their country's path to European Union accession. After three days of large-scale protests and domestic and international criticism, the draft bill passed the first reading at the parliament. Meanwhile, party officials lashed out at local civil society groups, accusing them ...
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The German police shut down a pro-Palestinian conference in Berlin, citing the risk that one of the speakers invited might make anti-Semitic comments or incite violence. Screenshot from a New York Times video. Fair use. This article was originally published in the New Arab on April 16, 2024. It was written by Dima Hamdan, a Palestinian journalist based in Berlin. She is the manager of the Marie Colvin Journalists’ Network. The article is republished in Global Voices as part of a content partnership agreement. It was supposed to be a three-day major event where grassroots activists and leading ...
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Footage from within Myanmar with rebel armies by Will Yang, Screenshot from Youtube channel of Taiwan PTS INNEWs. Taiwan and Myanmar are linked throughout contemporary history as a result of a substantial Chinese population loyal to the Kuomintang (KMT) having lived in Myanmar in the 1950s, but also because both countries face China's interference on their border. At the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the defeated Kuomintang army fled by boat from mainland China to Taiwan. But some also took a long terrestrial road from southwestern China, where many had gathered, and eventually moved t...
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Image by Arzu Geybullayeva On March 31, millions of Turks head to the polls to elect district mayors, metropolitan municipality mayors, provincial assemblies, and neighborhood and village representatives in local elections. The results of the race, especially in the country's biggest cities where the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is trying to win back the seats it lost in 2019, will shape Turkey's future, including economy, governance, and international position. Although not racing himself, President Erdoğan has been at the forefront of his party's election campaign trail. As poi...
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Illustration by Daniyar Mussirov. Used with permission. This article was written by Almas Kaisar and Nazerke Kurmangazinova for Vlast.kz. An edited version is published on Global Voices under a media partnership agreement. Ethnic Karakalpaks living in Kazakhstan have become the target of detentions and pressure after the July 2022 protests in Nukus, the capital of the autonomous region of Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan’s northeast. Uzbekistan’s government demanded that activists detained in Kazakhstan be extradited, after accusing them of “calling for mass riots” and “attacks against the constit...
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Image by Arzu Geybullayeva Complicity in perpetuating authoritarian rule has many faces. Undemocratic governance is propped up by politicians and big businesses as well as a complacent media ecosystem and an electorate who are wholeheartedly drawn to authoritarian policies. In the case of Turkey all of the above apply. This has paved the way for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to transform Turkey into an illiberal dystopia. From Freedom House classifications to in-depth analyses, one can say with relative clarity that Turkey has done away with any pretense of upholding democratic governance. Bu...
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Image by Arzu Geybullayeva March 12 marks the World Day Against Cyber Censorship, a day to champion the free and open internet, as designated by Reporters Without Borders in 2008. The day draws attention to the digital repression across the globe, especially in countries where governments silence and censor freedom of expression online. Often, in such environments, the repression does not just end with online censorship but is combined with offline persecution. Azerbaijan is one of many countries where these measures are prevalent. Since November, the state has targeted several online media pl...
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Youth activists stage a flash mob in protest against the continuing junta rule. Photo from Yangon Revolution Force, used with permission. The past decade saw the rise of varying shades of undemocratic regimes in Southeast Asia, reflected in the 2014 coup in Thailand, the election of Rodrigo Duterte in 2016 in the Philippines, and the return of military dictatorship in 2021 in Myanmar. On the other hand, the intensified repression was countered by people’s resistance energized by young activists who combined online and offline tactics to push back against tyranny and digital authoritarianism. I...
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This story is part of Undertones, Global Voices’ Civic Media Observatory‘s newsletter. Subscribe to Undertones. Welcome back to Undertones, where we study narratives from around the world. Since the end of 2023, the Civic Media Observatory has started a new project focusing on data governance. But we still have some important stories from our Community Observatory to share. One of them comes from our researcher from Gaza, who's now living abroad but has helped us make sense of the conflict since it started. In December, we published an analysis of critical narratives coming from Israel. This t...
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Image by Arzu Geybullayeva “You're a “FETO’cu!”, is a commonly used accusation by Erdoğan supporters and Turkish government officials, for all those who dare to challenge the country's leader. Turkey’s autocratic regime, through its army of online trolls and government elites, has mastered a strategy of silencing just about every critic by labeling them as a sympathizer and/or member of the Fetullah Gülen Movement — essentially calling them terrorists. The term refers to an elusive religious cult, led by Fetullah Gülen, which played a leading role in trying to overthrow President Recep Tayyip ...
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