Arrest of leading opposition figures immediately after presidential election on fabricated insurrection charges represents textbook authoritarian suppression of political dissent and democratic opposition.
The leading opposition candidate calls allegations of a planned insurrection as "total fabrications".
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Article documents authoritarian consolidation of power through appointment of loyalists to suppress domestic dissent and maintain… [more]
U.S. operation of overseas detention archipelago holding deportees indefinitely without charge exemplifies extrajudicial authoritarianism… [more]