Hebe de Bonafini, who became a human rights campaigner when her two sons were arrested and then disappeared under Argentina’s military dictatorship has died, her family and authorities have reported. She was 93. The death on Sunday was confirmed by ...
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Disappeared: a daughter’s 40-year search for her father, taken by Guatemala’s military dictatorship | Guatemala
africamustchangeOne 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 ...
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 ...