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OPPRESSION

ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Nov 12, 2018
Labor activists in China go missing after suspected coordinated raids
At least 12 Chinese labor activists have gone missing in recent days, in what sources close to them believe was a coordinated effort by authorities to silence the vocal group, most of them university students or recent graduates.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 9, 2018
China's embrace of digital Leninism
With 'social credit,' Beijing is seeking an inescapable political system in which citizens are completely loyal to the state
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 26, 2017
'Gaydar' shows just how creepy computer algorithms can get
Researchers have demonstrated facial recognition technology that can identify gay people. Imagine how that could be used in a country where homosexuality is a criminal offense.
EDITORIALS
Feb 16, 2017
A growing silence in Russia
The Putin government's need to silence an opposition leader through trumped-up charges shows its insecurity.
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jan 24, 2017
Trump's election is bad news for human rights in China
If Donald Trump doesn't care about human rights, why should Beijing?
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 22, 2013
Mexican police, soldiers tied to disappearances
Describing what it called "the most severe crisis of enforced disappearances in Latin America in decades," the U.S. organization Human Rights Watch issued a new report Wednesday with grim implications for the thousands of Mexican civilians who have gone missing in the country's shadowy drug fight.

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