DEMOCRACY

News About Democratic Processes

2,854 articles

The lawyer, the sniper and the stand-in: Ecuador's presidential candidates
Aug 18, 2023 (AFP)
Other leaders in the eight-person race are a leftist Indigenous leader and a former vice president. The victor of the snap election will only serve for a year a...
EU deplores democracy 'erosion' in Hong Kong
Aug 18, 2023 (AFP)
The assessment came in the bloc's latest annual report on the Chinese island territory. Last year marked the 25th anniversary of Britain handing Hong Kong back ...
Hong Kong democracy leaders cleared of organising 2019 protest
Aug 14, 2023 (AFP)
While the appeals court struck down one conviction, it upheld another, for participating in the August 18 demonstration, which drew an estimated 1.7 million peo...
Old guard vs upstart: Argentina's three-way race for the presidency
Aug 14, 2023 (AFP)
So who is in the running? - Far-right upstart Javier Milei - The surprise showing by outsider Javier Milei, who came first in primary elections with more than 3...
Running mate of slain Ecuadoran candidate to run for president
Aug 12, 2023 (AFP)
"The movement will replace the presidential ticket by putting Andrea Gonzalez as president," the centrist Construye party said in a statement. Villavicencio, a ...
New Zealand accuses China of foreign interference
Aug 11, 2023 (AFP)
China's growing "assertiveness" was fuelled by a strategic tussle in the Asia-Pacific region, New Zealand's Security Intelligence Service said, where Beijing ha...
Hong Kong arrests 10 for 'foreign collusion' over protest fund
Aug 10, 2023 (AFP)
Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong in 2020 after huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests the year before. Critics say the l...
Wanted Hong Kong activist says parents 'harassed, intimidated'
Aug 09, 2023 (AFP)
Hong Kong last month offered bounties of HK$1 million ($128,000) for information leading to the arrest of eight prominent democracy activists now living abroad,...
'Dramatic increase' in Myanmar war crimes: UN probe
Aug 08, 2023 (AFP)
The Southeast Asian country has been ravaged by deadly violence since a coup deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi's government in February 2021, unleashing a bloody ...
Hong Kong to appeal against court decision not to ban protest song
Aug 07, 2023 (AFP)
High Court judge Anthony Chan rejected the government's application last month for an injunction to ban "Glory to Hong Kong", a song written anonymously at the ...
Russia has arrested nearly 20,000 people for protesting Ukraine war
Aug 06, 2023 (UPI)
The organization published a report in July which found that at least 19,735 people had been arrested since Feb. 24, 2022, as of June 22. The report found that ...
Abortion standoff leaves top US Army job unfilled
Aug 04, 2023 (AFP)
More than 300 nominations -- including the generals selected as the next heads of the Army and the Marine Corps -- are awaiting confirmation by the US Senate, a...
EU blacklists dozens over Belarus' attacks on civil society, support of Russia's war
Aug 03, 2023 (UPI)
The European Council, which defines the overall political direction of the 27-member block, said Thursday it sanctioned 38 former and present Belarusian officia...
Greece to stagger Acropolis visitors from September: officials
Aug 02, 2023 (AFP)
The new time-slot system would be introduced on a "trial basis" on September 4, it said in a statement. Daily visits at the monument will also be capped at 20,0...
US 'deeply concerned' as Myanmar junta extends emergency
Aug 01, 2023 (AFP)
The extension, announced earlier in the day, spelled a delay for elections the military had pledged to hold in August as it battles anti-coup fighters across th...
Russian court rejects appeal of dissident's 25-year sentence; Britain responds with sanctions
Aug 01, 2023 (UPI)
Kara-Murza, a dual British-Russian citizen, was sentenced to a quarter century behind bars mid-April on charges of knowingly disseminating false information abo...
Myanmar's junta gov't again extends state of emergency
Jul 31, 2023 (UPI)
Myanmar has been ruled by the junta under a state of emergency since it overthrew the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi on widely discredited claims of vot...
Hong Kong court rejects government ban on democracy protest song
Jul 28, 2023 (AFP)
The Hong Kong government had in June requested an injunction order so that the song -- penned anonymously -- would be banned from being disseminated or performe...
Sedition clampdown hits 'ordinary' Hong Kongers
Jul 26, 2023 (AFP)
Arrested in March, the 48-year-old was accused under a colonial-era law for sharing dozens of pro-democracy social media posts authored by others, and then deni...
Cambodian heir apparent hails poll victory, defying international criticism
Jul 24, 2023 (AFP)
Hun Sen has ruled Cambodia for nearly 40 years -- stifling all real opposition, freedom of speech and democratic reform -- but has indicated recently that he wi...
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.