Two photographers were arrested in Spain, not at a protest, but in their homes because the state is out to get them.

Burma has imposed a limit of two children per family on Rohingyas in the region where most of them live.

Limiting on the number of children per family is legitimate. People cannot be fundamentally entitled to have however many children they wish, since that can lead to predictable disaster. However, such a limit should not be applied selectively to a second-class group. It should be applied to everyone.

Amnesty International explains why Obama's talk about drones and Guantanamo is still insufficient.

China plans to ramp up Internet repression by tying Internet users' IDs to all other activities.

People won't dare lend their accounts to dissidents if that means lending their bank accounts too.

The US copies most of the repressive tactics used in China, so I expect the US to copy this one, though it will require several steps and many years.

Prohibitionists still scrape the bottom of the barrel to try to make pot seem dangerous.