April 8, 2016
Dispatches: Regressive US Encryption Bill Harms Security
![A 3D printed Apple logo is seen in front of a displayed cyber code in this illustration taken February 26, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-04-united_states-apple-security-encryption.jpg?itok=JmFocCW-)
March 31, 2016
Dispatches: Basic Rights Still a Pipe Dream in Angola
![Some of the 17 activists who have been sentenced to jail terms of between two and eight years, after prosecutors introduced a new charge of “criminal conspiracy," Angola, 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-03-angola-africa-activists-1.jpg?itok=eaAgBbmn)
![Syrian refugees take "selfies" moments after arriving on an overcrowded dinghy at a beach on the Greek island of Kos.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/sized_to_code.jpg?itok=NB5pFqjF)
March 16, 2016
Dispatches: The UAE’s Literary Festival in a Vacuum
![UAE literature graphic](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-03-uae-mena-graphic.jpg?itok=4aUH42W2)
March 11, 2016
Dispatches: Protecting Privacy in the Digital Age
March 3, 2016
Dispatches: Prosecuted in Russia for Lack of Faith
![A man walks under an umbrella during a snowfall, with St. Basil's Cathedral seen in the background, in Red Square in central Moscow March 31, 2014.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/rtr3jckv_layout_comp.jpg?itok=0_YaF4oA)
February 17, 2016
Tajikistan: Severe Crackdown on Political Opposition
US, EU Should Urgently Raise Abuses
![2016-2-eca-tajikistan-kabiri](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/kabiri_2016.jpg?itok=9Gzcf-Gh)
![2016-2-russia-sergei-alekseenko](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/russia_lgbt_sergei_alekseenko.jpg?itok=G7DTeIP7)
January 27, 2016
Central Asia: Backsliding on Rights
Activists, Groups Targeted, Persecuted by Authorities
January 11, 2016
Dispatch: UK Snoopers’ Charter, Version 2.0
![A man and woman use their mobile phones as commuters walk past the columns of the Bank of England in the City of London, July 3, 2012.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/rtr34jdf_layout_comp.jpg?itok=UFPi1oAr)