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Former Czech President Vaclav Havel tells RFE/RL that Western countries should “express solidarity for those [Iranians] who are defending human rights.”

On a day when millions of Iranians went to the polls to vote for president, cell phone users found themselves without the ability to send and receive SMS text messages.

A new report finds that five influential authoritarian states – China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and Pakistan – are actively undermining democracy within their borders and abroad.

On the 20th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown and on a day when President Obama told a crowd in Egypt that he “is seeking a new beginning between the…

With Iran’s presidential election two weeks away, RFE/RL is publishing a daily blog featuring the twists and turns of the campaign’s final stages.

In an exclusive RFE/RL interview, General David Petraeus, the head of U.S. Central Command, discusses the Pakistani military’s campaign against the Taliban, the new U.S. strategy for Afghanistan and the…

The Afghanistan-based correspondents of RFE/RL’s Afghan Service, known locally as Radio Azadi, have won the 2009 David Burke Distinguished Journalism Award.

In exclusive interviews with RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service, several human rights activists reported that they had been arrested or confined to their houses today in Uzbekistan’s capital city, Tashkent.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) formally opened its new headquarters in the Czech capital today with a ceremony that included the President of Estonia, the Mayor of Prague, and distinguished…