While the mechanisms and laws that the Russian government uses to control its citizens have changed, the underlying pattern has not. Some journalists now call Russia’s method of digital surveillance a “cyber gulag,” drawing a parallel between the function once served by the labor camps and online monitoring. Where dissidents once risked exposure by passing along a hard copy of a banned text, expressing a similar sentiment today can be as simple and easily traced as one Telegram post.
Read MoreMany experts and human rights activists have expressed concern for Nicaragua based on actions of the Ortega administration. His administration’s actions have caused widespread impacts throughout various sectors including within the academic sphere, democratic erosion, and violent suppression. The Ortega administration in Nicaragua has engaged in numerous human rights violations, for example repressing academics and revoking the legal status of universities, killing or arresting opponents, denying people due process or their citizenship rights, as well as harassing journalists and repressing freedom of expression.
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