In this Explainer from 2020,as protests in Belarus reached boiling point,reporter Sherryn Groch wrote about the rebellion’s leaders and what was at stake in this country between Russia and the West.
Former ambassador to Washington Valery Tsepkalo is the second opposition figure to feel authorities would deprive him of his"parental rights".
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev,the current president,gave no reason for Dariga Nazarbayeva's surprise dismissal as senate speaker,
Rami Makhlouf,one of Syria's wealthiest businessmen,published a direct video appeal on Facebook after being saddled with huge debts and fines by the regime.
Some signs of life have emerged from the North Korean presidency after weeks of speculation about Kim Jong-un's health.
Questions about Kim's health flared after he skipped an April 15 commemoration of the 108th birthday of his grandfather,North Korea founder Kim Il-sung.
2019 marked another a year of democratic back-sliding across much of south-east Asia,with Australia too often absent from the discussion.
It comes as government statement said it had fully defeated what it called an attempted coup d'etat by the"rebel"Sam Rainsy.
When the wall came down there was a feeling of liberation. But now the barriers are being rebuilt – edifices of fear,both real and imaginary,are being constructed everywhere.
Franco,who died in 1975,unleashed the civil war that killed around 500,000 people between 1936 and 1939.
The Cambodian opposition is fracturing and autocrat prime minister Hun Sen has ensured that a key opposition figure,Mu Sochua,was deported from Thailand.