EUROPE
Crisis and Resistance at the Periphery: Bosnian responses to COVID -19 – Critical Legal Thinking
Coronavirus: Hungary bid to end emergency powers ‘an optical illusion’, say human rights NGOs – Euronews
Orban´s Power Strategy: “Surrender to win” – Balkan Insight
Coronavirus: Hungary votes to end Viktor Orban emergency powers – BBC
Hungary’s “de facto end of democracy” – Red Flag
Crisis and Resistance at the Periphery: Bosnian responses to Covid-19 – Critical Legal Thinking
Poland
Poland’s Democratic Slide During the Coronavirus – Carnegie Europe
Like Hungary, Poland has used the coronavirus to undermine democracy – NFP
Russia
Russia’s fight against the coronavirus may give Putin even more power – Washington Post
Putin Is Using the Pandemic to Consolidate Power – Foreign Policy
Putin’s “Soft Authoritarian” Regime and Russian Freedom – Bloomberg
Vladimir Putin Sheds the Last Pretenses of Legitimacy to Extend His Rule – Time
Russian doctors’ union launches map of problems faced by medics during covid-19 – Global Voices
Turkey
The coronavirus is exposing the flaws of Erdogan’s strongman rule – Washington Post
ASIA
Central Asia
COVID-19 and the Politics of Authoritarianism in Central Asia – Baltic Worlds
China
China, coronavirus and surveillance: the messy reality of personal data – Financial Times
With the world focused on COVID-19, China is flexing its muscles from Hong Kong to the Himalayas – NBC
China’s Surveillance Technology Is Keeping Tabs on Populations Around the World – The Diplomat
Hong Kong police granted sweeping security surveillance powers under Beijing’s new law – France 24
‘The new normal’: China’s excessive coronavirus public monitoring could be here to stay -The Guardian
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia and coronavirus: compilation of news and analysis – SPW
South Asia
The Coronavirus Is Hastening Modi’s Transformation of India – Foreign Policy
The Attack on Democratic, Constitutional Rights During the Pandemic Is Ominous: Aruna Roy – The Wire
Spread awareness rather than putting lockdown violators in jails. Allahabad HC Order.
The coronavirus pandemic intensifies Islamophobia in India – Global Voices
‘Media and Top Central Leaders are Complicit in Communalising COVID-19’ – The Wire
Nepali Muslims eye India’s growing Islamophobia with fear – Global Voices
In Bangladesh criticism of government response to the covid-19 pandemic is risky – Global Voices
Sri Lanka Cracks Down on Black Lives Matter Solidarity Protest – The Diplomat
SUB SAHARAN AFRICA
Burundi: Fear, Repression in Covid-19 Response – HRW
Kenyan police ‘killed 15’ since start of coronavirus curfew – Al Jazeera
Uganda: COVID Could Hand Museveni More Power or End His Rule – All Africa
The Authoritarian Politics of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe – Council on Foreign Relations
COVID Raises the Stakes for Zimbabwe’s Civil Society Movement – United States Institute of Peace
South Africa
South Africa’s COVID-19 Response Has Been Brutally Anti-Worker – Jacobin
LATIN AMERICA
Amid Repression and Scrutiny of the OAS, Bolivia Staggers Toward an Election Rerun – WPR
El Salvador’s Neoliberal Populism Runs Into Coronavirus -Jacobin
INCREASED POLICE REPRESSION ON SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF MASS MOBILISATION – Civicus
Free Press, Fake News, and Repression during Covid-19: Venezuela and Nicaragua – CSIS
MENA REGION
Egypt. Fighting “Evil People” Rather Than Covid-19 – Orient XXI
Virus, Dance of Death and Social Control – Orient XXI
Egypt today: Covid-19 on top of repression, repression on top of Covid-19 – The Green Political Foundation
Under Control: Palestinian Workers in Israel During COVID-19 – Oxford Faculty of Law
The Twilight of the Iranian Revolution – New Yorker
Rights group urges free speech protection in Iraq – Al Jazeera – The Wire
GENERAL
Will the Legacy of Covid-19 Include Increased Authoritarianism? – Transparency International
COVID-19 could lead to new wars in authoritarian countries – The Hill
Authoritarianism in the Time of COVID – Harvard International Review
Our Democracy Will Survive This Pandemic – The Atlantic