Protesters clash with police during demonstrations against the official election results declaring President Nicolas Maduro’s reelection the day after the vote in Caracas, Venezuela, in July. Independent U.N. human rights experts said in a new report Tuesday that their findings show Venezuela’s government has intensified the use of the “harshest and most violent” tools of repression after the disputed July …
Experts and relatives of detained politicians raise alarm on the government’s heavy hand. Anas Altikriti, head of the Cordoba Foundation think tank which focuses on relations between the Muslim world and Western nations, said at Thursday’s forum in London that while the so-called Arab Spring was one of the “most transformative moments of this century”, events now in Tunisia are …
