Article documents authoritarian consolidation of power through appointment of loyalists to suppress domestic dissent and maintain militarized state control, qualifying as significant political repression and governance abuse.
A rally in Tehran in April, with posters of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei. The ayatollah has not been seen in public since being named supreme leader of Iran.
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Describes systemic impunity for human rights violations in Iraq including gender-based violence and suppression of civil society freedoms… [more]
U.S. operation of overseas detention archipelago holding deportees indefinitely without charge exemplifies extrajudicial authoritarianism… [more]