Repression

Turkey's Süleymancı community

The cost of staying outside Erdoğan's orbit

The Süleymancı religious movement has long resisted being drawn into Erdoğan's Sunni conservative coalition. Now the state is accusing the group of financial crimes. Salim Çevik examines the crackdown, the community's political history and its ties to Germany.
Lebanon: Ongoing political obstruction

The judge investigating last year's deadly Beirut port explosion had to suspend work on Monday, a court official said, after what rights groups and victims' families condemned as another blatant case of political obstruction.
Indian author Arundhati Roy: "Coronavirus exposes infirmities, weaknesses, prejudices"

Acclaimed author and political activist Arundhati Roy addresses the coronavirus pandemic and the Indian response. On the post-pandemic world, she tells us that if we were "sleepwalking" into a surveillance state before, we're now "panic running".
Uighur persecution: "They come for us at night"

The Uighur minority in China lives in a dystopian nightmare of surveillance and police violence. At least one million are believed to be interned. Uighur children are indoctrinated with Chinese customs in orphanages.
Human Rights Watch: Egypt's new approach to fighting dissidents

Over the past year, Egypt's authorities have increasingly resorted to anti-terror and emergency laws as a means of crushing peaceful opposition to the government. Journalists and human rights activists continued to be persecuted, Human Rights Watch said in its latest World Report.
China's ongoing repression of its Uighur Muslims

More than a million Chinese civil servants have been assigned to move into the homes of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities, spending weeks as uninvited guests.