One day when she was 12 years old and still new to the ways of remembering the dead, Ana Isabel Bustamante took a photograph from the wardrobe where her mother kept her dark clothes and her most precious things. Ana ...
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Nobel winner: ‘We journalists are the defence line between dictatorship and war’ | Nobel peace prize
africamustchangeThe last time a journalist won a Nobel prize was 1935. The journalist who won it – Carl von Ossietzky – had revealed how Hitler was secretly rearming Germany. “And he couldn’t pick it up because he was languishing in ...
‘How dictatorship works’: Hungarian academic quits in censorship row | Hungary
africamustchangeA prominent academic has resigned from a Hungarian higher education body, alleging censorship and accusing the top European standards organisation of turning a blind eye to waning academic freedom in central Europe. Andrea Pető, a professor at the Central European ...
Cambodia accused of using Covid to edge towards ‘totalitarian dictatorship’ | Global development
africamustchangeCambodians who break Covid rules could face 20 years in prison under a new law that human rights groups say takes the country “a step towards a totalitarian dictatorship”. Prime minister Hun Sen warned that Cambodia was “on the brink ...