A man giving a haircut to a fellow Central Asian migrant in a Moscow apartment. Photo by Fred S. via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) On August 2, 2022, a court in Kazakhstan sentenced Murat Meirbekov, a 56-year-old Kazakh resident of Georgia, to 15 years in pris…
The shards of memory and Trinidad & Tobago’s attempted coup
Image of Yasin Abu Bakr surrendering to Trinidad and Tobago regiment forces in 1990, compiled using Canva elements and screenshots from footage filmed by Walt Lovelace and used with permission. Every Trinbagonian has a coup story. During the “summer ho…
Popular Chittagong University shuttle train gets a colorful graffiti makeover
The shuttle train of Chittagong University is adorned with colorful graffiti. Photo by Ehsanul Islam, used with permission. The University of Chittagong is one of the few universities in the world that has its own shuttle train. Chittagong University, …
Sri Lanka: The evolution of the Gotagogama protest site and its periphery, in photos
Demonstrators and artists prepare themselves with body paint for a choreographed march opposite the Presidential Secretariat. Image by Sandesh Bartlett via Groundviews. This photo essay was first published by Sri Lankan photographer Sandesh Bartlett in…
Unfreedom Monitor Report: Brazil
Image courtesy Ameya Nagarajan Authoritarian regimes have long had a complicated relationship with media and communications technologies. The Unfreedom Monitor is a Global Voices Advox research initiative examining the growing phenomenon of networked o…
Superstar wrestler jailed for murder as high crime rate alarms Mongolians
Olympic champion and the holder of the elite rank of “national elephant” (улсын заан) Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar in traditional Mongolian wrestling outfit. Cropped screenshot from the hero.e entertaiment YouTube channel On June 9, 2022, the court of the K…
Jamaicans ‘swept away’ by their women sprinters at World Athletics Championships
Jamaican double Olympic sprint champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce speaking at the UN Post-2015 safe & sustainable transport event. Fraser-Pryce, along with compatriots Shericka Jackson and Elaine Thompson-Herah placed first, second and third, respectivel…
What happened to Hong Kong protesters three years after the 2019 crackdowns?
Demonstrators clash with police at a protest in 2019. Photo: Jimmy Lam/USP & HKFP. The following post was originally written by Lea Mok in the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) on July 16, 2022. It is published on Global Voices under a content partnership ag…
Eight Trinidad & Tobago Police Service officers detained in conjunction with fatal shooting incident
Riot police outside the St. James amphitheatre in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on April 18, 2009. Photo by Georgia Popplewell on Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Just over two years after members of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) killed three people…
The Gambia’s former spy chief sentenced to death for murder of political activist
Yankuba Badjie was the director of The Gambia’s now defunct National Intelligence Agency (NIA). Image by the Alkamba Times, used with permission. This post first appeared in The Alkamba Times on July 14, 2022. This edited version is being republished o…