In Venezuela’s ‘darkest hours’, will peace prize boost opposition or backfire? María Corina Machado’s Nobel award puts focus on country but analysts doubt it will produce democratic change The Guardian - UK · Oct 12, 2025
For imprisoned Nobel laureates, the prize did not bring freedom The head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee urged Iran to release imprisoned peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi and let her accept the award at the annual prize ceremony in December The Independent UK · Oct 6, 2023
Ted Cruz has a message for the Cuban government and he wants to send it by street sign WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is pushing to rename the street in front of the Cuban embassy for Oswaldo Payá, a political activist who fought against one-party communist rule of the island nation. Tribune News Service · Jul 4, 2023
Two Prominent Chinese Rights Activists Jailed for Over a Decade The heavy sentences of lawyers Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi are longer than Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo’s 11-year jail term. The News Lens · Apr 11, 2023
Protests in China are not rare -- but the current unrest is significant Street protests across China have evoked memories of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations that were brutally quashed in 1989. Indeed, foreign media have suggested the current unrest sweeping cities across China is unlike anything seen in the country since that time. The Conversation · Nov 30, 2022
Bialiatski joins small group of jailed Nobel Peace laureates Belarussian Ales Bialiatski, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with human rights groups in Russia and Ukraine, is the fourth person to receive the award while in prison or detention The Independent UK · Oct 7, 2022
Cybersecurity Report Finds Microsoft Censoring Politically Sensitive Chinese Names In US Searches A Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) search engine has made it more challenging in North America to look up politically sensitive people for China, the Wall Street Journal reports. Citizen Lab consistently found that Bing censored politically sensitive Chinese names. Bing’s autofill system, which guesses based on searching after a few keystrokes, often fell silent… Benzinga · May 20, 2022