Documents a leader potentially manufacturing or escalating military conflict to manipulate domestic politics and secure re-election, exemplifying authoritarian use of external threats to suppress political opposition and consolidate power.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is up for re-election in October, but is trailing in the polls.
State police violently dispersed and arrested indigenous protesters exercising peaceful resistance against corporate mineral extraction,… [more]
Documents long-term arbitrary detention of activists and human rights defenders by authoritarian regime, exemplifying state political… [more]
Demonstrates authoritarian abuse of 'national security' charges to criminalize legitimate political dissent and international advocacy for… [more]