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Israeli military vehicles cross the fence to the buffer zone witrh Syria near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights on December 10, 2024. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

What the Collapse of the Assad Regime Means for Israel

December 13, 2024

Saudi Arabia Must Not Extradite Peaceful Protester to Egypt, Where He Would Face Torture

December 6, 2024

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - AUGUST 24: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with fellow Brics leaders pose for a family photo with new Bric members at the last day of the Brics summit fellow leaders president, Xi Jinping, China's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's president, Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, and Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, Iranian president is Ebrahim Raisi, on the closing day of the BRICS summit at the Sandton Convention Center in the Sandton district of Johannesburg on August 24, 2023, South Africa. The Brics summit, held in South Africa between 22-24 August 2023. Brics is made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. New Members are Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia. Some of the things are discussed during the summit is if to expand Brics and accept new members like Saudi Arabia and Iran, and a Brics currency. Vladimir Putin wanted to attend the meetings but South African president Cyril Ramaphosa managed to talk him out of it, as he risked being arrested while in in South Africa, as the ICC, International Criminal Court has issued a warrant of arrest for Mr. Putin's on suspicion of unlawful deportation of children and unlawful transfer of people from the territory of Ukraine to the Russian Federation (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

Is Saudi Arabia Serious About Joining the BRICS?

December 4, 2024

Advocacy

Saudi Arabia Must Not Extradite Peaceful Protester to Egypt, Where He Would Face Torture

December 6, 2024

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 19: Paul Keary, COO of Teneo Holdings attends the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative Gala at Powerhouse at The American Museum of Natural History on November 19, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

U.S. Consulting Firm Teneo Whitewashing Saudi Human Rights Record, Misleading Public, Contributing to Abuses

November 13, 2024

Teneo's Propaganda Campaign and Subpoena Evasion: Shielding Saudi Arabia From Accountability

November 13, 2024

Democracy In Exile

'Freed From Assad,' Syrians Rejoice While Wary of What Comes Next

December 20, 2024

Democracy In Exile

'It Was Annihilation.' Victims of Assad's Chemical Attacks Can Finally Speak Out

December 19, 2024

Algerian security surround protesters during an anti-government demonstration in the capital Algiers on December 11, 2019, ahead of the presidential vote scheduled for December 12. Algeria's contentious presidential election campaign is highlighting the vast gap between youth at the heart of a reformist protest movement and an ageing elite they see as clinging to power. The poll will see five candidates, all linked to ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, compete for the top office. But protesters, whose mass mobilisation forced the ex-strongman to resign from his two-decade tenure in April, have rallied weekly to say sweeping reforms must come ahead of any vote. (Photo by RYAD KRAMDI / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

No Safe Haven: Algeria's Transnational Repression of Dissidents

December 17, 2024

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Democracy In Exile

'Freed From Assad,' Syrians Rejoice While Wary of What Comes Next

December 20, 2024

Democracy In Exile

'It Was Annihilation.' Victims of Assad's Chemical Attacks Can Finally Speak Out

December 19, 2024

Algerian security surround protesters during an anti-government demonstration in the capital Algiers on December 11, 2019, ahead of the presidential vote scheduled for December 12. Algeria's contentious presidential election campaign is highlighting the vast gap between youth at the heart of a reformist protest movement and an ageing elite they see as clinging to power. The poll will see five candidates, all linked to ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, compete for the top office. But protesters, whose mass mobilisation forced the ex-strongman to resign from his two-decade tenure in April, have rallied weekly to say sweeping reforms must come ahead of any vote. (Photo by RYAD KRAMDI / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

No Safe Haven: Algeria's Transnational Repression of Dissidents

December 17, 2024

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THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS - JULY 30: Exterior View of new International Criminal Court building in The Hague on July 30, 2016 in The Hague The Netherlands. (Photo by Michel Porro/Getty Images)

DAWN Joins Coalition Call for the Biden Administration to Repeal ICC Sanctions

February 18, 2021

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA: Newly-appointed Saudi King Abdullah greets people in Riyadh 03 August 2005. Abdullah vowed to work for justice and serve his people in his first address to the nation after succeeding his late half-brother king Fahd. "I pledge to God, and then I pledge to you that I take the Koran as my constitution, Islam as my programme and to work for justice and serve all citizens without discrimination," he said on state television. AFP PHOTO/HASSAN AMMAR (Photo credit should read HASSAN AMMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

Discretionary Death Penalties in Saudi Arabia Make a Bad Situation Even Worse

February 17, 2021

IBB, YEMEN - DECEMBER 16: Yemeni students are seen listening to their teacher inside a wreckage of their school, at Ar Radmah district of Ibb, Yemen on December 16, 2019. Yemeni children, living in the district of the Ibb province in the south of capital Sanaa are trying to continue their education in the shadow of the war at the classrooms without heating stoves and benches. Due to the ongoing civil war and conflicts for almost 5 years, lots of schools in the city have been damaged or ruined. (Photo by Mohammed Hamoud/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

DAWN Joins Mark Ruffalo and 20 Organizations to Urge the EU to Stop Selling Weapons to Saudi Arabia and UAE

February 11, 2021

After three years, Saudi authorities conditionally released the prominent women’s rights activist.

Saudi Activist Loujain Alhathloul Released but Banned From Travelling

February 10, 2021

Houthi

Democracy In Exile

Why the US is wrong to designate the Houthis as 'terrorists'

January 24, 2021

A shadow of a security member of the consulate is seen on the door of the Saudi Arabian consulate on November 1, 2018 in Istanbul. - Journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and his body was dismembered and destroyed as part of a premeditated plan, Turkey's chief prosecutor said on October 31, making details of the murder public for the first time. (Photo by OZAN KOSE / AFP) (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

Biden Should Release the CIA Report on Jamal Khashoggi's Killers

January 18, 2021

A shadow of a security member of the consulate is seen on the door of the Saudi Arabian consulate on November 1, 2018 in Istanbul. - Journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and his body was dismembered and destroyed as part of a premeditated plan, Turkey's chief prosecutor said on October 31, making details of the murder public for the first time. (Photo by OZAN KOSE / AFP) (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden Should Release the CIA Report on Jamal Khashoggi's Killers

January 18, 2021

28 June 2019, Japan, Osaka: Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdelasis al-Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, talks at the beginning of the first working session of the G20 summit. The heads of state and government of the 19 leading industrialised and emerging countries and the European Union will meet at the G20 summit in Osaka (Japan) on 28 and 29 June 2019. Photo: Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa (Photo by Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Why immunity for MBS should be off the table

January 15, 2021

28 June 2019, Japan, Osaka: Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdelasis al-Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, talks at the beginning of the first working session of the G20 summit. The heads of state and government of the 19 leading industrialised and emerging countries and the European Union will meet at the G20 summit in Osaka (Japan) on 28 and 29 June 2019. Photo: Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa (Photo by Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

Why immunity for MBS should be off the table

January 15, 2021

TUNIS, TUNISIA - JANUARY 24: Protesters congregate outside the formerly feared Interior Ministry on Avenue Habib Bourguiba on January 24, 2011 in Tunis, Tunisia. Protesters from the countryside and the hamlet of Sidi Bouzid, the town where the 'Jasmine Revolution' started, walked through the night to descend on the prime minsiters office where they tore down razor wire barricades. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

Tunisia 10 Years After the Arab Spring: A Success Story Threatened by UAE and Saudi Arabia

January 15, 2021

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